Wander/Wonder explores the nature of speculation and our changing relationship with physicality through two separate but connected experiences: Wander, a walkable virtual street map of Baltimore City with all buildings removed except for psychic reader storefronts, and Wonder, a zero-gravity digital astral plane experienced as a virtual reality environment. 

While the interactor flies through the Wonder side via an Oculus Rift VR headset, the Wander side is projected on a screen for spectators to view. The interactor uses a custom crystal ball controller to navigate both environments simultaneously - one person guides the experiences of spectators in Wander while fully immersed in the VR environment of Wonder. 

Outgrown is a fantasy and a eulogy for weeds. Using augmented reality, this piece resurrects the weeds that once grew in a space and envisions a parallel world in which they now thrive. An interactant looks through one of the provided tablets at each glowing panel and sees the spirits of plants rise up to claim back a space of their own.

An attempt to preserve people through digital masks molded around images from video chats.  This piece was begun during quarantine around my fear that the last time I might see my loved ones would be on a video call. The footage is a recording of a simulation built in a realtime rendering engine.

Artist’s book. Color risoprints, augmented reality application.

Recorder gestures toward the ephemerality of information by recording sound into sand. Similar to a record player, the machine has a turntable and a needle. However, record players work by interpreting sound waves - users hear audio based on the vibration of the needle in the grooves of a record. Recorder inverts this functionality by linking the needle to a speaker resonator. A very shallow sandbox acts as a turntable as the resonator wobbles the needle, recording sound waves into the sand. 

An ongoing series of sculptural radios in which the weather affects the output of the radio. Over time, these works have evolved into crystal radios, which require no external power supply. With a high resistance earphone, one can hear radio transmissions powered entirely through the signals themselves.⠀⠀

MollyeNet uses specialized hardware to implement a public access WiFi network onto art museum property. MollyeNet has exhibited successfully at MoMA NYC and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Maps layers sheets of clear acrylic into one column, each engraved with a different location-based data set from Baltimore City. Location sets such as Vacant Buildings, Mural Locations, and Public Pools individually form an incomplete map of Baltimore. However, stacked on top of each other the transparent pieces “fill in the blanks” to create a complete map. Maps responds to absorbing and resisting supposedly holistic media portrayals of Baltimore through generic data sets. 

A hanging mylar cloud of browser tab windows, Tabs attempts to physically realize the mundane interfaces that dominate daily lives while still alluding to these structures as immaterial. A repetitive cloud formation gives visual weight to almost invisible mylar silhouettes, attempting to imply a large amount of information that exists in lieu of meaning.

2 tubes of lipstick, 11 hours, over 6700 kisses.