DESIGN is a telescoping ladder that I keep in my apron.
My passion for visual language is the action which creates representation through multiple means. Not a discipline, but a dialogic practice, design speaks between the lines to connect meaning, message, and medium. I teach practice as a skill, engaging lived experience, research, and early sampling. I encourage process as a powerful and motivating factor in the development of influential concepts. Within this constellation, the principles of design, elements of art, and aspects of society coexist. At any given moment, during a conversation, interaction, critique, or rebuttal, I retrieve this ladder, connecting 2D, 3D, or 4D thinking. Although proficient in contemporary media and technology, I rely on analog processes, heritage techniques, t-square, and tracing paper. I use the language to construct, deconstruct, distribute, or link concepts, images, text, or meaning. Design by its nature is interdisciplinary. It invites a viewer, stirs the mind, forcing the conversation, and soothes my soul. My pedagogical stance is wider and deeper in breadth but maintains praxis as a central, unifying aspect.
DESIGN is a telescoping ladder that I keep in my apron.
My passion for visual language is the action which creates representation through multiple means. Not a discipline, but a dialogic practice, design speaks between the lines to connect meaning, message, and medium. I teach practice as a skill, engaging lived experience, research, and early sampling. I encourage process as a powerful and motivating factor in the development of influential concepts. Within this constellation, the principles of design, elements of art, and aspects of society coexist. At any given moment, during a conversation, interaction, critique, or rebuttal, I retrieve this ladder, connecting 2D, 3D, or 4D thinking. Although proficient in contemporary media and technology, I rely on analog processes, heritage techniques, t-square, and tracing paper. I use the language to construct, deconstruct, distribute, or link concepts, images, text, or meaning. Design by its nature is interdisciplinary. It invites a viewer, stirs the mind, forcing the conversation, and soothes my soul. My pedagogical stance is wider and deeper in breadth but maintains praxis as a central, unifying aspect.
DESIGN is a telescoping ladder that I keep in my apron.
My passion for visual language is the action which creates representation through multiple means. Not a discipline, but a dialogic practice, design speaks between the lines to connect meaning, message, and medium. I teach practice as a skill, engaging lived experience, research, and early sampling. I encourage process as a powerful and motivating factor in the development of influential concepts. Within this constellation, the principles of design, elements of art, and aspects of society coexist. At any given moment, during a conversation, interaction, critique, or rebuttal, I retrieve this ladder, connecting 2D, 3D, or 4D thinking. Although proficient in contemporary media and technology, I rely on analog processes, heritage techniques, t-square, and tracing paper. I use the language to construct, deconstruct, distribute, or link concepts, images, text, or meaning. Design by its nature is interdisciplinary. It invites a viewer, stirs the mind, forcing the conversation, and soothes my soul. My pedagogical stance is wider and deeper in breadth but maintains praxis as a central, unifying aspect.
Public Practice
I work through a process of exchange and make my practice visible, outside of the traditional studio context. Ownership of this work is not important, as I seek to activate communities and create access to spaces in new ways. Residency plays a major role in learning and understanding communities where I work.
Home Built for Everyone
2021
Assemblage sculpture constructed from waste found in Elm Park Mere Ponds
Overall Dimensions H: 56” W: 48” D 48”
Pick Up Sticks
2021
Performance score developed to collect waste and sticks on Elm Park Mere Ponds
Pollinator Picnic Residency
2019
Residency based on the islands and water in the Mere Ponds Elm Park
Mere Pond Mud Pie Company
2019
Public performance forming mud pies from areas of impounded mud in Elm Park Mere Ponds.
Balancing Act on a Stream
of Consciousness
2018
Performance presentation of MFA research and portfolio of work
Consciousness in Space
2017
Performance score preparing a space for temporary installation of Getting to the Point
Blackstone Explorations
2015—Present
Series of single-channel recordings of explorations on the Blackstone River from a stand-up paddle board based studio