“excavate/integrate,” 2018
Plastic ants exhume the pages cut from a carved book, giving a sense of the natural world taking over the human constructs of order and language.
“Guns in the Heather,” 2016
In what’s cut away and what’s left behind, this piece explores how language shapes us and the world we inhabit, how we allow language to manipulate our view of the world, and how we use language both to create and to destroy.
“True Paths,” 2018
Collage has the ability to walk the line between poetry and visual art, using both words and images to create a lyric or tell a story.
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