SILT


With the support of the Anchorage Museum and Polar Lab Artist Residencey in Anchorage, Alaska, Silt is an exploration of Alaskan glacial silt from multiple views of relation. The figurative silt sculptures where placed in the locatations the silt was gathered and wasdocumented as it became a transient, ephemeral part of the surrounding  environment. For me, a vicarious experience of identification, relationship and transformation with the environment.
I was born and raised on the banks of the Nenana River. The river silt is one of my earliest memories of connecting to my environment. I remember the way it would transform my skin into a sparkling part of the river after covering my hands in it. Whenever I have the opportunity to return home, it is still a powerful signifier of the phenomenal place I am from. It is also a swift reminder of the personal, familial, and communal experiences growing up in Alaska that for me and many other Alaskans were powerful, dangerous, and sometimes very tragic. For the people who live there, the natural landscape and the people are inextricably linked, my aim was to approach silt from this perspective.






Consider the Spoonbill

 



Consider the Spoonbill  consists of 3d scans of taxidermied Roseate Spoonbill birds from the LSU Nature Science Museum’s collections. It is a look at human’s complicated and precarious relationship with appreciating animals, wildlife, and the environment, in particular as compounded my destruction and loss of habitat.

Presence / Absence
 Presence/Absence , MFA thesis

An acknowledgment of the impact of interpersonal relationships. In it I explore experiences and languages that comprise coexistance such as touch, proximity, loneliness, isolation and longing for connection.

Through the lens of digital 3D scaning I look at tnederness within the context of the limitless void of digital space, devoid of scale, time, or place, andin states of digital deconstruction, to observe more essentially, what complexity and familiarity persists. In turn, I aim to explore the  to look more essentially at nterbeing.


The bed is central to Presence/Absence. Its immediate language is a powerful relationship between the signifier and signified. It speaks directly of the body and of bodily experiences from the mundane to the profoundly affecting. With this in mind, I look at the dynamic of Presence / Absence and how the bed can simultaneously speak of the past and present, and of the impact of presence and absence.