Aberrant Objects

 
2021-2022  With my recent attraction to the wool felting process I have found combinations of everyday objects and this modest material brings surprisingly meaningful results. I see expressions of humor, irony, nostalgia, and psychological or spiritual moments. 

Imagined Beings and Future Space

Imagined Beings and Future Space. 2021
In the future there will be no definitive boundaries between plant and animal or mineral forms, mass and light, artifice and organism. Felted wool over fig branches, needle felted wool figure with armature and wool needle felted stone/egg shape with synthetic fill. 
Fig branches sizes inches: 56h x 24w x 20d, 32h x 28w x20d, 18h x 12d x 10w
Stone/egg shape size inches: 12h x 12w x 15d
Figure size inches: 36h x 4w x 2d

ASMR Portals

Inspired by the internet phenomenon of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), this series offers a new way to uncover strangely satisfying experiences in everyday moments through hypnotic sounds, textures, and visuals. Through the use of chroma key visual effect technique to superimpose a new background onto an original image. Within this framing, the viewer exists in an unknown spatial plane between real and fictional space.

Zen for VR

A virtual reality headset sits on a meditation cushion. Nearby may be a reflective surface. A spectator may or may not notice the headset as they walk by. If noticed, they might consider putting it on.

Backgrounds

I started to play around with watercolor after seeing Lisa Yuskavage show at BMA. I read how Yuskavage taught herself watercolor techniques from a book "The Art of Watercolor" when she had to teach a watercolor class after graduating. I bought the same book and taught myself how watercolor works by making these paintings of backgrounds.   

Blood Clock 2020

The Blood Clock 2020 series of paintings are my response to Pipilotti Rist’s Blood Clip (1993) that displays copious flows of menstrual blood, for which she was accused of taking feminism too far. What does it mean to take feminism too far? This criticism of Rist’s work presented an interesting challenge to me. How do we rebel against social taboo and biological reductionism in favor of inclusive narrative about our bodies and biology?

Modularity Space

The image of living spaces alongside solar objects materialized in full color when I read about India Mahdavi’s global approach to interior design. She said, “I see space being divided by curtains instead of having walls. Because it gives you the modularity.” I was inspired by her use of colors, textures, and shapes to create livingscapes that are both otherworldly and familiar.
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