VIDEO
TOUCH-HCUOT
2020
TOUCH-HCUOT is a video work that addresses the vibrancy of matter. Created for the Clock Tower in downtown, Denver, a hand manipulates soft materials. The video is mirrored creating rorschach-like symmetry that makes the forms alien and uncanny. The imagery brings a strange sensuousness to an otherwise cold architectural environment. It was exhibited as a part of Wonder by Wonder, an exhibition curated by Brooke Tomiello and Rose van Mierlo.
Rock Collection
2016-2020
This collection of digitally rendered rocks was sourced from free green screen videos on Youtube. In this video, the rocks are organized into smaller sets. Some are grouped based on categories such as ‘asteroids’ or ‘badly rendered rocks.’ Some sets are made up of identically shaped rocks that each have a different skin. Collecting these rocks activates the space between the digital and the real where desire thrives. As with cryptocurrency and social media capital, the rocks offer the allure of the hunt, the promise of fulfillment, and the satisfaction of calling something one’s own.
The videos of these rocks also do something else. Like the Youtube generes, Oddly Satisfying and ASMR, the rocks activate a phenomenon akin to synesthesia in which the rocks can be felt in the body as much as they are seen with one’s eyes. They are visually tactile and singular in their objectness; they are materially knowable yet utterly ephemeral. In the digital realm, where images and sounds flow like a multidimensional river, these videos function like a vessel that weightlessly guides the viewer into the body, to a place underneath language; a place that offers the humble possibility of pleasure.
Slow Black Glow
2017
This video is an exploration of membranes, fluidity and the materiality of bodies.
Sublingual Sensorium
2015
Ornament
2013
In this performance for video, 3 hermit crabs traverse and explore the artist’s head, in a mutual exchange of sensation between bodies. The human body becomes the background, foregrounding the non-human participants.
Rise & Fall (Beijing)
2012
In the performance for video, the artist lies on the ground with a camera held to her chest. The image of the sun rises and falls with her breathing, stitching together the human body and its surrounding environment which in this case, includes the ever present haze of pollution that hangs heavy in the Beijing air.
Blue Ridge Expedition: Seventeen Year Song
2012
For seventeen years, the cicada nymph lives underground, eating roots and digging in darkness. When the earth begins to warm in the spring of the seventeenth year, it crawls its way up through the soil to the nearest branch, tree or fence post. It splits its shell and emerges winged and ready to join its fellow singers in the treetops. The din of the cicadas is deafening as the males try to lure mates with their raspy call. After a few weeks, eggs have been laid and the chorus dies. The newly hatched cicada nymphs fall to the ground and burrow into the silence of earth for seventeen more years.