Destination Unknown Video and Photography "Keep uncertainty alive as long as possible." I heard this piece of advice while watching a documentary about video artist William Kentridge. He argues that once things become certain, they become hardened and inflexible. In other words, you no longer are open...
Performance Part of The Art of Enough series. I was searching for a way to create a more intimate exhibition experience. Most of my previous exhibition experiences were a lot of work followed by one evening of brief interactions with attendees. It was tiring and unsatisfying. I became...
[caption id="attachment_16689" align="alignleft" width="321"] October 12[/caption] Small Surprises Online Documentation of Year Long Mindfulness Practice Part of The Art of Enough Series Small Surprises began when I was given this guidance: “I think you should seek to have pleasurable moments during ordinary experiences”. This is essentially the concept of mindfulness,...
My Mother Made Me Laugh. My Father Showed Me How Things Worked. Mixed Media. Part of The Art of Enough art and podcast series The objects representing the pain of my childhood ended in a big ball — a big ball of objects entangled in brown jute twine,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Directions to Enough Experimental Self-help Video Series Directions to Enough is a series of experimental, instructional self-help video series. The project functions on several levels: 1) communicate to the audience a useful guideline for improving psychological and emotional health, 2)...
All the King's Horses Self-Portrait and Assemblage Photography My photography and video work is designed primarily to help me understand how past experiences affect present-day emotions and behaviors. When I was five years old, my father started to have a series of bipolar episodes. It broke apart our...
Re-Remembered Monologue with Photographic Set Pieces Creating the G(love) series brought up many childhood memories. At first, all were negative experiences that reinforced my perception of my father with all his faults and tragedies. However, during the process of creating G(love), I was able to see these...
Glove was the result of a process that reconnected me with my estranged and long deceased father....
Family of Men was conceived out of a need to reclaim the sense of family that I lost in childhood....
Dad’s Belt began as an exploration into re-associating the feelings I had connected to my father’s belt but it ultimately became a creative process through which I substantially reduced my fear of conflict. ...