Working between sculpture, writing, curating, and organizing, I’m interested in the broken systems we inherit for moving through the world and the objects, rituals, and the environments that make those systems feel natural. Drawing from Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology, my work considers the pathways we are directed toward, what happens when they fail us, and how we might find our bearings elsewhere.
My work often begins with objects that carry the residue of class, power, and empire into everyday life. Through these objects of hospitality and luxury, I consider the morality placed on consumption, the complicated ethics of pleasure and indulgence, and the delicate boundary between care and control. I’m drawn to the friction between an object’s beauty and the systems of power embedded within it, and to our desire and complicity in continuing to indulge in its use.
Glass wilts, vessels overflow, tablecloths stand like ghosts, and serving platters melt: objects behaving almost magically against their prescribed forms. Through collapse, excess, and instability, familiar objects become strange, bodily, funny, mournful, or unruly.
