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A Remedy for the Homesick

2017

Materials: latex, the dirt, backpack, airplane, car.

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What is this below me

2017

Materials: plaster, latex, fishing line, discarded bedding and clothing.

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Real Estate

2015 - present

Materials: handfuls of dirt and plant matter, zip codes, real estate values per handful

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Redshift

2018

Metal Bank Superfund Site, Philadephia, PA

Materials: 13 red lights, 1 grow light, string, paper, pencil, tweezers, wire, tape, pine rosin, pigeon egg, barn funnel weaver webs, barn funnel weaver spiders, dried squirrel corpse, mile-a-minute weed, salmonberry, virginia creeper, common vetch, common ivy, yellow sweetclover, old man’s beard, compass plant, japanese knotweed, mullen

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Thief

2015-present

Materials: holes in the ground

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Studies in Space (surfaces)

2017

Materials: latex, dirt.

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Hopland, CA

2017-present

A collaborative project with interdisciplinary microbiologist and UC Berkeley PhD student, Alexa Nicolas.

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The Distance Between Us

2015

Materials: land stolen from across the continental United States.

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In the Pacific

2015-16

Materials: inkjet print soaked in the Pacific for six months, and an inkjet print soak in the Pacific for one year

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Dust

2014

Charcoal, cotton dress, water, 7 days

I circled the gallery, a rotation for each year of life of a lost friend. At 2:27 pm I circled the gallery 18 times, for the first lost friend. At 2:51 I circled the gallery 24 times, for the second. At the beginning of each performance I removed my shoes and donned a simple white dress. With each rotation a path of charcoal was laid down by my feet and brushed by the dress that trailed behind. The performance was repeated each day for one week.

At a time when the University of Pennsylvania had lost four students to suicide over the course of two months, this piece mourned those lost in my circle of friends, and one the campus as a whole.

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Handle

2014

Materials: wax, fists, friends

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