Hello everyone! I started blogging in January 2012 as a professor's assignment to show our process, etc. with her and our classmates. Much of the work posted on this blog was in-progress or just showing ideas that turned out not to work in the end. You can follow it here: Subdural Space .
I decided to start fresh and create a blog that might be a little more presentable and contains mostly finished projects or ideas for projects. I will still post raw and unrealized work on the other blong. After entering through a transitional phase in my work, I find it important for myself to keep organized and separate the old from the new in order to move forward.
To start off the show, I will explain a little about myself and my work:
For the past two years, I have been making work in order to handle my father's sudden death in January 2010. As much as I wanted to deal with the subject matter, I was still only dancing around it and using art more as a therapy than a means of expression. While my work now still holds a therapeutic means for myself, I have become much more direct with the ideas of memory - memories of my father, fading memories, the act of rememberance. Instead of my work (which you can clearly see on my other blog) becoming about grief and sadness, my work is now similar to a celebration of life - trying to remember who he was to me and others. Another characteristic of my work is my interest in the fallibility of memory: how memories fade, why they fade, and what our minds fill instead.
My work comes in many mediums but currently I am working in text, video, drawings, and sculpture/installation.
