Medium: Performance, Mixed Media Sculpture

Dimentions: Variable

Duration: Variable

Year: 2013

The fool is an installation and performance about trying to break the unhealthy patterns that are perpetuated in relationships. 

Often it seems, so many people repeat the same relationship stories over and over again throughout their lives. The repetition and recycling of relational problems is a common story, and is often due to an individual's unwillingness to change their own pattern. This installation is about the futile actions of an individual unwilling to get up and change their own cycle, all the while praying that it will end. 

The installation is made up of a shelf and sculpture that is hung on the wall. On the shelf are the words, the end is near, and a sculpture that signifies a woman in the place of power. 

For the performance, the artist will wear white clothing with the title of the piece printed on her back. With charcoal, she will write the history of her romantic relationships down the wall and onto the floor, with the words, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again, interspersed periodically. When she gets to the end, she will go up to the statue, say a prayer, and begin the process again. As she goes she will smudge and rewrite the charcoal over and over again. The intention is for the piece to occur over all long period with no real beginning or end, the duration of the piece will last until the artist deems it finished. 

Title: Love Me Harder 

Medium: Wood, glass, biological matter

Dimensions: 41" x 36"

Year: 2013

Love Me Harder is a piece that questions how we define and relate to the ambiguous concept of love. "Love" is a historical and social concept that is made up of a variety of definitions and social constructs. It is defined in poetry and literature as impassioned feelings, defined by science as chemical reactions in the brain, talked about by spiritualists as touching the divine, and defined by mainstream culture as a sexual act. Love is one of the most common topics of our current culture, and yet no definition or way of communicating it can ever really translate the experience of individuals. 

Love Me Harder is made up of a framed cataloguing of the remainders of the artist's sexual activity with a lover over a period of months. By pairing it down to the barest minimum; the remnants of the sexual act, this piece asks us if we can ever truly define, communicate or capture exactly what love really is, or if the attempt to define it takes away from our ability to experience it fully. 

Title: I want Moore

Medium: Wood, metal

Dimensions: 20" x 14"

Year: 2013

I want Moore is a project about the desire for things we don't normally feel entitled to have. Taken in the context of the rest of this series, this piece talks about the search for ideal relationships, and not just stopping at "good enough". 

Using the imagery of the tarot card, this piece references the nine of cups, which is a card based around wish fulfilment. It speaks to arriving to a place of completion by resolving your past, and shows satisfaction on all levels- emotional, physical and sensual. 

This piece is an altar to the ultimate fulfilment of one's relational space. It does not stop at nine cups, but moves on to the full dozen, praying to the idea that faultless relationships are possible. 

Title: forever

Medium: Styrofoam

Dimensions: 8" x 10"

Year: 2013

forever is a sculpture that discusses the ephemerality of human life and love, as opposed to the longevity of the products that we as human beings produce. It will sit on a short birch plinth about 3 1/2" off the floor.