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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.
lifelike art is connectedness and wide-angle awareness.
-"The Real Experiment," Allan Kaprow
After studying and planning artist residency programs, I began to question the privilege afforded by the experience of departing from daily life to dedicate time and space to practice or craft. As I witnessed through dialogue with other artists and practitioners, the residency is a gift. In my own life, coming to terms with leaving a job and the responsibilities of my family felt unsustainable. Unfortunately, I was not alone in this, beginning to understand that not all practitioners can take advantage of the traditional residency experience due to issues of sustainability. With this question in mind, I decided to riff off Allan Kaprow's lifelike art example in the essay "The Real Experiment."
My residency is everyday life; extracting experience and questions from interactions with the media, messaging, and meaning. Making space and time to observe and respond to the now, and worry about the where and why as it evolves from the process. Chance and continual questioning are cornerstones of this ongoing work/practice/life.
rules for residency in lived experience
Mandated Vacations
Experimenting with durational inquiry projects around the subject of boundaries during mandated vacation periods.
residency in lived experience
2019 Mobility Study
Ashville, NC, Black Mountain, NC, Knoxville, TN
2019 Mobility Study
Narrowsburg, NY, Philidelphia PA, Smithtown, NY
2017-ongoing Pilot Project
Making space for making
2017 Getting to the Point
Garden House, Goddard College, Plainfield, MA
2017-ongoing Barn Attic
2016 Drawing Practice
Music Building Attic, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
Public Practice
2019 Pollinator Picnic Residency
Interludes, Art in the Park Elm Park, Worcester MA
Mere Pond Mud Pie Company
Elm Park's Dirty Laundry
2017 Next 35 Manifesto
2016 Labor and Restraint Manifesto
2015 Artists in Residence
Worcester Free Store, Worcester MA
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