Research
Interests

  • Moving towards on-site research handling ephemera, using photography to document objects, informing both fieldwork and studio art making.

  • Using found materials as a way of exploring histories of readymade sculptures, especially alongside the rich archive of Black artists who have created such objects. By using one medium (photography) to critically examine another (sculpture), my research-based practice raises an inquiry that crosses both media: what are the lost purposes of inventions that no longer function as intended?

  • Considering architecture, human intervention, monuments, public art, and regulated superstructures that are created to improve the quality of life in the public and private realms.

  • Working in an Interdisciplinary approach creating studies through fieldwork, juxtaposing the natural world and the built environment. A practice of observing the challenges of urban vs. rural living.

  • What is sustainable in community development? Combining ideas of ruins and future design methods.

The Materials, 2021

Building, shifting between parts, labor, and thoughts

The whirl from tools, closer to completion

A gaze along the cantilevered surface, mindful the cornerstone

Stillness and movement, the tug of war,

This spatial study, proposals for future pedagogy

Ownership, privacy, and navigation

A puzzling encounter of situations

Sad in hardware stores, Inspired in hardware stores

Cutting through, bonding takes place

Hardly a project if there are no angles involved

Teams push, individual hopes

Time is provenance for the groundwork.