wingspan

2024 | Mixed Media Installation

Bard College at Simon’s Rock, May 2024. Advisor Zoey Lubitz. Readers Jacob Fossum and Ben Krupka.

This collection of drawings, photographs, and mixed-media sculptures is an exploration of seriality in non-linear storytelling. Inspired by internal architectures of trauma and memory mapping onto physical contexts, this collection functions like an archive, a map, or a flower that unfurls as both indexical and alive.

A central piece in this exhibit, wingspan, pushes the boundaries of sculptural ceramics to a nearly unrecognizable limit, resembling a huge steel marionette as it hangs suspended inside a welded frame.

the archive of dreams

Several years ago, in a time of personal upheaval, I began having thematically cohesive dreams - the same characters returning night after night, and imagery which felt strangely specific and meaningful. I began to think of these images as my companions, and these characters sculpturally, as vessels which contained and embodied my emotions. It was clear that I needed an architecture for my grief, a place for it to live and be held by something larger than myself. You can access the full archive, including the transcribed series of dreams, for free on my substack.

process archive