Entire industries have formed to allow Americans to escape their daily lives. This escape, whether through television, video games or the internet supercedes the very acts which connect us to one another, the earth and fosters deeper fulfillment. In response to this, I create performative and sculptural installations dealing with myths that exist in pop culture, such as fortune telling or superpowers. I am interested in the representation of the act of fantasy within those myths. Through interaction and experience, I hope to raise questions surrounding the societal and economic structures in place that continue to enable the fantastical myth, for good and bad.

In my video work, I have dealt almost exclusively with emotional states. The time-based medium works well to record a performative act and juxtapose it against another such act. It is in this juxtaposition that emotional experiences and thoughts are recreated and reflected with a simultaneity that still work doesn’t allow for. Rather than setting up a binary system, where there is a lack and not-lack (a Freudian concept, video formats with multiple screens or channels have served well to express a rhizomatic formation (following a Deleuzian model). I believe this echoes feeling closer than language or symbols.