Unfamiliar 2024
Sculptural objects, jewelry, video, installation.
Untitled Video (Venus on Mars)
Background image is of a hill called “Santa Cruz” in Mars’ Jezero Crater taken by the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover on April 29, 2021. Audio is by artist and includes recordings taken from the Perseverance Mars rover in February 2021. Film still from video. 2024
Background image is of a hill called “Santa Cruz” in Mars’ Jezero Crater taken by the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover on April 29, 2021. Audio is by artist and includes recordings taken from the Perseverance Mars rover in February 2021. Film still from video. 2024
Take these tools for your safety: to alert, defend, navigate.
Find your way through the land. The landscape. Your body. The landscape of your body.
The sensual landscape of your body.
Too sensual. This is unsafe. You are unsafe. You, woman, you cannot go alone.
Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.
It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.[1]
Discover yourself new places. Conquer those new places.
Exert ownership.
Stake your claim and plant your flag.
Wait. Homestead! Yes, homestead.
Make a home marked by your body even if that body doesn’t and hasn’t felt like it belonged in its surroundings since it left the squishy comfort of amniotic fluid.
Nevermind.
[1] Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Find your way through the land. The landscape. Your body. The landscape of your body.
The sensual landscape of your body.
Too sensual. This is unsafe. You are unsafe. You, woman, you cannot go alone.
Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.
It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.[1]
Discover yourself new places. Conquer those new places.
Exert ownership.
Stake your claim and plant your flag.
Wait. Homestead! Yes, homestead.
Make a home marked by your body even if that body doesn’t and hasn’t felt like it belonged in its surroundings since it left the squishy comfort of amniotic fluid.
Nevermind.
[1] Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle