artifact generator
metaphysical
dilemma
for the #cope
Artist statement
I am a writer, musician, sculptor, printmaker, and metaphysical dilemma. I am nonbinary and American and not normal about feeling either.
After being banished from purgatory, I reside in Athens, Georgia, where I am completing a BFA in Sculpture at the University of Georgia. I describe myself as a coming-to-being sculptor, creating through a revelatory practice; I embrace nature as a collaborator through time-based processes and chemical reactions.
I create compulsively as a coping method for existential terror and as a means of asking philosophical questions. I work across mediums to explore questions about the reciprocally defining relationship between humanity, technology, and divinity.
My practice emphasizes process, time, and labor as a conceptual element. This has led to casting, acid etching, ceramics, video, sound, site-specific installation, and performance. My work examines technology's changing role as an extension of memory. I compare and contrast the content and form of record keeping across time to examine human experience.
I am interested in how these archives impact ideology, identity, and the environment.
These themes manifest as: powerlines crowding the sky, the swamp swallowing a Cadillac, a laundry line, years of journal entries, rows and rows of matchbox houses, and even more datacenters. My visual language appropriates and recontextualizes classic American symbology, western philosophy, and meme culture to question the delicious bread and the hilarious circus. God as a car crash, in the electrical towers and every wire, the moment a ripe something hits the ground, my algorithm, a bullet in the brain, a once in a 100 years lightning strike.
We are carpooling to a destination unknown, which requires that we take the road to Damascus. There is something bright ahead; maybe it is the sun, or maybe it is the high beams of heaven’s angels, or maybe the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Photo by Jason Thrasher