As a co-founder of three artist-run collectives (Border Patrol, Ditch Projects, Palm Galerie), I am committed to carving out spaces in pursuit of artistic visions, soundings, excavations, and translations.
Finding models of representation in the art of politics / politics of art to be increasingly, desperately insufficient and unable to deal with the crises of the day, I wonder how regimes of representation might transform and how collective liberations might assemble in the Mean Time…
In addition to the collaborative work mentioned above, I exhume legacies of disablement and deformation in attempts to understand life within, upon, and around my own non-normative body. As a sporadically embodied prefix, and after failed attempts at fixing, I ask...how do words applied to bodies become the (de)forms through which days and nights unfold? What do we call the lives whose words cannot be found in diagnostic manuals? Can people survive the state without finding legible words with which state actors can read and thereby translate their asymmetrical, distorted, cosmically radiant lines? Might bodies be simultaneously legible to care and inscrutable under surveillance?
Across shifting materials – wax, plaster, sand, aluminum, glass, ice, paint, fabric – and the intentional application of melting, smoking, burning, staining, threading, and hollowing, I seek in these questions a balm and a shield.
Born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1983 and raised slightly north in Kandiyohi County, I currently drift between Bakersfield, CA and Buffalo, NY.