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happy meal
resin cast of actual McDonalds Happy Meal - I paired the casts with 90s Happy Meal toys from my childhood. this piece was both about the fake-ness of McDonald's food, while also attempting to put the idea of a Happy Meal inside of its own trope - an actuation of its name, and of always being accompanied by toys.
the weight and warmth you left in my bed
through a strenuous, multi-layered/multi-cast process, I wanted to give the illusion of a bust permanently embedded in a pillow. the piece spoke to me about how I think most people feel after a break up - the intangible awareness of an absence from their partner. in its name - I wanted to play on the irony of that absence's coldness. the piece was also about 50 pounds, as I wanted its haunting presence on the mattress to be noticeable that it actually affected the mattress itself. this piece is at full scale.
tree shadow
using a non-toxic, algae-based mold-making material, I took a mold of the side of a live tree which I then cast in plaster. with the added base and heavy duty metal chain, I was attempting to explore the commodification of nature aesthetic as well as attempting to view a dystopic natural future.
quit
I completed this three foot aluminum cigarette with a light-up ember to relate my struggle with quitting smoking in a comical and clownish way even though it and the struggle itself is quite large and serious. Here is a link to video of installation.
cast of vices
commentary on vice and the vice and the vessels that both feed it into our system. for this piece, it was important for me to use wax as my medium, so that it was really melted into each vice until the vessel and vice were inseparable - much like the feeling one is faced with in addiction.
empathy
a shifting piece I created to represent a rudimentary view of how one might engage socially with depression. It is an interactive piece in that it takes agency to activate the chair and once seated inside, it's quite isolating, yet created with not exactly opaque fabric so you can still see out/in. I hoped this would convey an empathetic reaction from the agent involved. Here is a link to the engagement of the chair.
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