Fine Art

My fine arts practice includes a variety of media, from two-dimensional collages to time-based animation, participatory art, and installation. I am interested in how our modern worship of celebrity, youth, and beauty is mythologized and ritualized.

Digital prints, drawings, mixed media collages, animations, and interactive installations make up the majority of the work in my fine arts practice. In it, I explore the intersections between celebrity culture and ancient archetypes; mass media and cults; rituals and domesticity. My participatory work invites viewers to create collages on glowing orbs, arranging transparent cutouts of animals, human body parts, and other random objects on overhead projectors. I pull images that participants have created and incorporate them into new collages.

Much of my work invents animal-human hybrids, encasing them in a modern context. The series “Constellations” was created of mixed media collage paintings on Mylar to fabricate constellations out of imaginary star clusters. Images emerge from these clusters in the form of characters that were inspired by the Major Arcana of the Tarot.

This body of work maps modern and ancient archetypes onto made-up celestial objects. Critiquing the notion that our culture’s predominant worldview is rational and detached, these pieces call attention to and poke fun at, the (oc)cult aspects of our obsession with celebrity, youth, symmetry, and beauty.