About my work
I am in interested in bodily perceptions that are rooted in familiar interactions with everyday spaces. Our experiences with domestic architecture and the objects it houses provide structure to our memories, and even our subjectivity. My work seeks to explore these quotidian perceptions of inhabited space, and to transform and alter such comfortable interactions with the everyday, making them strange or unfamiliar, exposing them through the restructuring of their construction. By using craft and other domestic actions—knitting, arranging, and decorating—I question the primacy of the structure in lived space.

Informed by the phenomenological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard, my work is equally influenced by the romanticization of everyday life presented in classical Hollywood cinema and its reiteration as camp by artists like John Waters and Andy Warhol. Somewhere between minimalism and melodrama, my camping of everyday space postulates a different mode of being and interacting with the world.

In my recent work, I have explored representations of space and the efficacy of modes of display. By blurring the line between my studio space and living space, a creation of a new space for play emerges, one that is performative yet highly structured. In my videos, I enact roles that border on the eccentric or even the psychopathic and embed these characters within domestic settings. These performative videos are frequently presented alongside or filmed within a studio installation space in which moments of play have become continuously repeated over time, both ritualizing and imitating lived space. This performative fabrication transgresses the everydayness of lived space while operating within its structures. Through these actions, I seek to question the margins of social normalcy and its role within the domestic everyday.

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