HALLOW

THEY

I am a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, video, and performance. Materials I use range from handmade, found, and natural objects. Because of this demand, material investigation is a large part of my practice. My work is dynamic in nature, it asks to be interacted with, rather than looked at. This is not so much about touch, as it is about the interaction of body and space. I enjoy having small details in larger works, creating an unmarked path for engaged visitors to take. Though the work is stationary- through this encouragement it becomes kinetic, with the body acting as the moving part. 

A dual quality in my work is that of fear and discomfort, meshed with the warm tones of humor and play. Safety is investigated as something that is earned, and questions of why we cannot trust other people are brought to the surface. Larger institutional frameworks are considered as a failing structure on which communities suffer. Individualism, herd mentality, predator-prey mindsets, and power dynamics are topics I incorporate. Works combine interior and exterior worlds, exploring psychic spaces and social spaces, and how they influence each other. Collective individual experiences are relayed as an effect of cultural conditioning, and vice versa. By creating environments that are tangible, yet dreamlike, I am reflecting the absurdity of contemporary ignorance to ethical corruption, and rebuking it.