A collaborative installation with artist Morgan Frailey at School 33 in Baltimore, MD. A series of fiber-based sculptures and performative objects constructed via traditional knitting and weaving techniques that speak to a larger ideas of social circles and interactions. The work addresses both the physical challenges of creating communal space as well as the challenges of breaking barriers between internal and external social consciousness.

Animation. Ink Drawings. 06:50 min. 2013.
Working in collaboration with the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, this short animation was produced to visually aid the oral history of Floy DeWitt. Floy Dewitt was a resident of Calhan, Colorado, born in 1906, who was aided by the Colorado Pioneer museum to document the oral history of her early life growing up in eastern Colorado. Her story details how she was impacted by the Colorado landscape, gold mining, westward expansion, and becoming a professional working mother in the context of the early 20th century.

Hear Charm City is a series of animations based on street interviews with Baltimore City residents. The project aims to promote and encourage new platforms for communication across the many cultures and communities of Baltimore by presenting a new method to hear the many voices within the city. The series launched March, 2015 and was part of the exhibition SEE/HEAR Charm City, a collaboration between Hear Charm City and Make Studio later that year.

Two channel video loop, 34 min. Glasgow

Stories of Self is a two-channel video that depicts ten participants asked to share a story they feel best represents them. In one channel, participants tell theses stories alone in an empty room to the camera, while in the other participants tell the same story amidst a room full of people. Stories of Self was exhibited in the 2010 exhibition Sea Dogs III at the Glasgow School of Art.

Bound together by vinyl leg traps, two performers struggle across concrete as they simultaneously push and pull upon each other in order to escape.

Performance. 3- 7 hours. 1’ x 6’ Vinyl Prop.

A body scale performative object in the likeness and functionality of a Chinese finger trap in which two performers struggle to escape. This performance is part of an on going series in which the performance takes place in public urban spaces during community festival events. The performance is conducted for durations from 3-7 hours.

Beat Suits

Two suits with built in circuits; Arduino, heart rate sensor, LED and speaker; two jump ropes, two actors. Baltimore. 2015

As two performers generate a sonic environment of biofeedback as their heart rates swell in and out of sync with one another.

Beat Suits is a durational performance that features a pair of performers jumping rope and wearing costumes outfitted with heart rate sensors that monitor performers' heartbeats and generate tones that play through speakers embedded in the suits. Each suit has outputs a unique frequency and when the performers' heartbeats come into and out of sync with each other the different frequencies combine to create the Major chord C which permeates the space, while the smacking jump ropes create a dynamic polyrhythm.

During the performance, the two performers attempt to synchronize with one another by physically mirroring each other's movement, rhythm, breathing patterns, and audio output of their suits. As the performance continues over time, the performers grow increasingly more fatigued making it harder and harder to prioritize synchronization over the needs of their own body.

Performance. Two stethoscopes, two hand counters, two actors, nylon.
Baltimore. 2015

During a three hour long durational performance, two figures within a nylon enclosure listen across stethoscopes attempting to sync their heart rates while recording beats with hand held counters. As the heartbeats fall in sync a droning and meditative rhythm of clicking is formed a disturbance or fatigue disrupts the shared experience. This transition results in agitated movements between the performers as they pull each other within the nylon in a mirroring dance as they attempt to assert their individual influences on the coarse of the performance.

Pulse was performed during Eminent Domain at EMP Collective as well as during the Borders, Boundaries, and Barricades performance art review in Baltimore, Maryland.