Whether making film, comics, zines, games, animation, woodcuts, or objects, I often feature moments of encounter — between strangers, across generations, or within war zones — that point to the possibility of connection within a culture of systemic violence and mediatized surveillance. More recently, I’ve been drawing and writing short stories about illness, healing, and sensory disability; trans life and trans loss; and the neuroscience of memory and emotion.
Media: Table, Silkscreened Tarot Cards on Blocks of Wood, Croquet Objects
Through chance, play, a sense of mystery and even a puzzle, I am fascinated by how games hold the power to innocently yet deeply grip people, calm them, excite them, and possibly heal. By delineating a sacred, poetic space for a ritual participation in art, THE SUMMER: A READING FOR LOS ANGELES is a sculpture of healing for the entire City of Los Angeles through the mysteriously ordered, ludic structure of a tarot card game.
THE SUMMER first exhibited in 2010 at the Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles as part of Grow, a group exhibition themed around social change and "creatively solving what ails our contemporary existence, starting with our own backyards." Inspired by personal and psychic experiences in homes and their surrounding geographies, each tarot image corresponds to a friend in Los Angeles who opened up their home to me when I needed a place to crash.
