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.
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.
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
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Untitled (compass, knife, satellite device, and whistle). 2024.
Paper and aluminum pendants on 28" chains.
When I first began to venture into the wilderness I was most afraid of what it would be like to encounter remote spaces, unknown creatures, and inclement weather. Instead, I was most struck by a compulsion to make sense of my queer, femme body. I was made aware of my body’s vulnerability not by the landscape, but by the others passing through it and by the placenames that commemorated colonizers in favor of indigenous erasure.
These objects are among the items I carry when I venture into the outdoors. They are tools for your safety (to alert, defend, navigate) that have been rendered useless by their construction from paper covered with the printed interiors of envelopes. These patterns are meant to shield our identity, but do little against modern threats. . . . or even a strong downpour. It mimics the way glaciers, ever receding, are indicated on topographic maps.
Paper and aluminum pendants on 28" chains.
When I first began to venture into the wilderness I was most afraid of what it would be like to encounter remote spaces, unknown creatures, and inclement weather. Instead, I was most struck by a compulsion to make sense of my queer, femme body. I was made aware of my body’s vulnerability not by the landscape, but by the others passing through it and by the placenames that commemorated colonizers in favor of indigenous erasure.
These objects are among the items I carry when I venture into the outdoors. They are tools for your safety (to alert, defend, navigate) that have been rendered useless by their construction from paper covered with the printed interiors of envelopes. These patterns are meant to shield our identity, but do little against modern threats. . . . or even a strong downpour. It mimics the way glaciers, ever receding, are indicated on topographic maps.