Window installation aimed at providing warmth and light to passers-by during the last month of winter in Maine. Currently on view at SPACE gallery, 538 Congress St. Portland, ME.
2020. Linoleum prints, string, pine branches, tracing paper.
Last year, while looking through a book called ‘Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work’ by Anne West, I learned that the roots of the word aesthesis (the perception of the external world by the senses) come from greek words meaning various forms of “I perceive” and “I gasp, struggle for breath” and “I breath in”. It led me to the word aesthetic, and it seems the greek word at the root was “relating to perception by the senses.” For me this drew connection between the perception of beauty to the act of breathing in. This is a work in progress, which is exploring installation as a path for shared, collective experience around something as simple as pausing to take a breath.
2019. Tracing paper, push pins, halogen light, feelings
This shadow installation was created during a one-week artist residency, and is a meditation on our cultural disembodiment from the wisdom of the natural world. To me, this disconnection is linked to our limited/limiting views that keep us from accessing a greater expanse of human connection and interdependence. This piece could be expanded and installed in any number of windows of varying sizes and shapes.
2018. Cut card stock, halogen light, screen, window.
Karaokish is an opportunity to explore performance within a playful and supportive environment, similar to Karaoke... but not quite! At this event, participants are invited to explore karaoke-adjacent activities that one may or may not want to do at a traditional karaoke event, with each performer opting-in to whatever conditions feel best for them. Audience members are also participants, because holding space for bravery is never a passive act. The event pictured is an installment of Karaokish that was hosted as part of the Biddeford Fringe Festival, where I took over a small storefront and turned it into a celebratory performance lounge.
2019
Ongoing participatory performance that serves as an exercise in bravery and community care.
More info found HERE.
2017-2019
This is the promotional image I created for a participatory experience I facilitated as the culminating event of my Creative Fellowship at the Maine Women Writers Collection. We engaged a range of memory practices with the purpose of creating an “archive” of our time together. Activities included exploring pieces of the collection, a silent walk through the neighboring cemetery, and discussion.
2019
Three interwoven threads explore burial, ritual, and putting things to rest. This piece was produced by Alice Anderson, Bronwyn Clement, Chloe Cekada, and Devon Kelley-Yurdin, with music by Kafair, for the 24 Hour Radio Race by KCRW's Independent Producer Project.
2019
This site-specific installation was created for a closing gathering I hosted in my cabin on the last night of a two-week residency. I spent my time at the residency creating visual elements culturally associated with parties (invitations, garlands, decor) then invited my fellow residents into the space to all share what we’d been working on and our experiences. The suspended pieces were part of the ongoing series Other Nature, which explores the connection between queerness and nature through juxtapositions between natural and person-made elements. But the larger participatory experience was centered around the question of what celebration can look when we’re alone vs. when we’re together.
2017
Shadow Puppetry performance and installation about the Great Portland Fire of 1866. In collaboration with Cecilia Ziko.
2016
Shadow Puppetry performance and installation about the Great Portland Fire of 1866. In collaboration with Cecilia Ziko (who created these broadsides).
I asked a bunch of women and queer folks what phrases they found inspiring and motivational, and this is what they said.
Some sample phrases:
"you are a genius"
"it's actually happening"
"you go girl"
"your ass looks amazing in those pants"
Cut paper installation, installed in two locations: San Francisco, CA, May '12; Burlington, VT, December '13.
I asked a bunch of women and queer folks what phrases they found inspiring and motivational, and this is what they said.
Some sample phrases:
"you are a genius"
"it's actually happening"
"you go girl"
"your ass looks amazing in those pants"
Cut paper installation, installed in two locations: San Francisco, CA, May '12; Burlington, VT, December '13.
Performance/presentation I put together as a goodbye and thank you to Eastport, Maine for the powerful two+ years I spent there.
2015
A tree becomes a treehouse.The Gardens at Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
2011. Shellacked cut paper and string.
Daily project turned installation, in collaboration with Jen May. September 2009-May 2011.
Installed in two locations: Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA, January '11; Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA, April '11.
