WORK

"Tides" is part of "Point of Origin," a project inspired by my 2019 artist residency at Fort Worden, Port Townsend WA. It reconfigures the small, vulnerable species of Coast Salish intertidal environments (starfish, anemones, crabs, sea urchins, fish) as pattern blocks that I then "wove" into larger “tapestries.” Port of Seattle purchased the piece for SeaTac Airport, where it will be displayed indefinitely.

POINT OF ORIGIN, TIDES (2022)

Digital UHD 4K video, 11:23 minutes, looped
3840 x 2160 resolution; shown here displayed across four 86” monitors
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Concourse C

"Tides" is part of "Point of Origin," a project inspired by my 2019 artist residency at Fort Worden, Port Townsend WA. It reconfigures the small, vulnerable species of Coast Salish intertidal environments (starfish, anemones, crabs, sea urchins, fish) as pattern blocks that I then "wove" into larger “tapestries.” Port of Seattle purchased the piece for SeaTac Airport, where it will be displayed indefinitely.

"m/other" light boxes include still images captured during the initial filming of the "m/other" project, a series in which I use my own body during my eighth month of pregnancy. For this project, friend Christian Sorensen Hansen provided photography/videography support at my direction. "m/other" explores themes of otherness, invisibility, and different modes of time as they relate to motherhood. The visual building blocks of this project are a "video tapestry" created from time-lapsed footage of wilting floral arrangements and my (pregnant) body cloaked head-to-toe in white satin. The light boxes are designed to be amorphous/anonymous with vague reference to the Christian saints found in stained glass works of churches as well as to the back-lit couture fashion advertisements found in metro stations.

M/OTHER light boxes (2022)

Color inkjet prints on acrylic, wood, LED lights
6’ x 4’ x 6” each
Shown here at Amazon, 440 Republican St, Seattle, made possible by Shunpike's 2023 Storefront Program

"m/other" light boxes include still images captured during the initial filming of the "m/other" project, a series in which I use my own body during my eighth month of pregnancy. "m/other" explores themes of otherness, invisibility, and different modes of time as they relate to motherhood. The visual building blocks of this project are a "video tapestry" created from time-lapsed footage of wilting floral arrangements and my (pregnant) body cloaked head-to-toe in white satin. The light boxes are designed to be amorphous/anonymous with vague reference to the Christian saints found in stained glass works of churches as well as to the back-lit couture fashion advertisements found in metro stations.

Production support for "m/other" was provided by Brian Beck, TJ Davis of Lux Collective, and Christian Sorensen Hansen.

VENUS FIGURINES, 1-4 (2024)

4K digital video, 2:00 minutes each, looped
Variable dimensions
4Culture's Storefront Media Gallery (March 6 - 31, 2024)

"venus figurines" are another outcrop of my “m/other” shoot. These are intended to be displayed from hologram fans, however, I had the opportunity to adapt them for screens to be displayed at 4Culture’s Storefront Media Gallery this March. The clip shown here is montage of four different figurines, each to be displayed on their own monitor and played side-by-side simultaneously. The "figurine" is a mirrored version of my cloaked body that moves subtly as a kaleidoscopic pattern of blooming/wilting flowers spin around her like a clock. These make references to time, mortality, and the Upper Paleolithic venus figurines believed to represent goddess worship.

WOMAN IS WORD, A-SIDE (2021)

Color inkjet prints on acrylic, wood, LED lights
6’ x 4’ x 6” each

"woman is a word" is a project shared in two parts—the "A-side," light box prints, and the "B-side," video loops—representing the active versus the passive. In shooting for this project, I projected psychedelic videos of mountain ranges onto female forms cloaked in satin, creating a mash up of color and form that explored different types of time (human vs. geologic) and obscured the distinction between subject/foreground and context/backdrop. A-side debuted at the pop-up gallery Series 001 in August 2021 and was later selected to be a part of the 2021-22 Lusio Light Festival (shown here), which populated storefronts in Downtown Seattle with installations from video, projection, and light artists November 2021 - February 2022, in partnership with property owners and the Downtown Seattle Association.

Production support for WOMAN IS WORD was provided by Brian Beck, Kyle Seago of Seago Media, Christian Sorensen Hansen, and Sankofa Theater.

Promotion video filmed by Kyle Seago of Seago Media.

WOMAN IS A WORD, B-SIDE (2021)

Digital 4K UHD video, 20 minutes, looped
Dimensions variable; shown here on three 82" monitors
Port of Seattle Headquarters, Pier 69, Seattle (Nov '21 - May '22)

Counter to the static images of “A-side,” “woman is a word, B-side” offers a window into the subtle actions of waiting, or “timeless time,” for example, the bouncing of one’s knee or rolling of one’s head. B-side also debuted alongside A-side at Series 001 in August 2021 and is shown here exhibited at the Port of Seattle’s Headquarters on Pier 69 where it helped activate the streetscape during the darker months in '21 - '22.

Production support for WOMAN IS WORD was provided by Brian, Beck, Kyle Seago of Seago Media, Christian Sorensen Hansen, and Sankofa Theater.

Promotion video filmed by Kyle Seago of Seago Media.

GHOST MASS (2020)

Video projections (4:15 minutes, looped), speakers, fabric, wrecked car parts
22’ x 10’ x 8’ installation
Glass Box Gallery, Seattle (Dec 31, 2020 - February 15, 2021)

Ghost Mass was designed to activate the streetscape nightly with a scene consisting of a video "tapestry" of wilting flowers projection-mapped across three walls, a haunting sculpture of satin draped over wrecked car parts salvaged from a junkyard, and audio created from the reverberations of car engines and stereos. It is inspired by ghost particles and dark matter, and the act of measuring what's missing by examining what remains.

Production support for GHOST MASS was provided by TJ Davis of Lux Collective.

Promotion video created Kyle Seago of Seago Media.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN THE ELEPHANT (2020)

Voile fabric, video projections, speakers, wood, metal, wire armatures
16’ x 20’ x 11’ installation
Inscape Arts & Cultural Center (February 1 - August 31, 2020)

Created as part of my 2020 artist residency at Inscape Arts & Cultural Center, this installation occupied a windowless room where the public could weave between the maze-like formation of the eighteen sheer flags as the fireworks show crescendoed and the audio composition transitioned from celebratory to eerie to panicked. This project is inspired by an old idiom, "to see the elephant," and recent disquieting events in American politics and culture.

FLOWER/THORN (2019)

Digital 4K UHD video; 4:25 minutes, looped
Dimension variable
Studio work

A video "tapestry" piece, “Flower/Thorn” is inspired by Gertrude Stein's famous quote, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" and the power of repetition as a means of deconstructing something. It features pattern-ized footage I captured of me caressing then destroying a rose, along with a remixed love song from Disney's Cinderella. This work debuted at my solo show Rose/rose/rose/rose at the Vestibule Gallery January 18 – February 16, 2020.