4 Dimensions (video & Performance Art)
My videos and performance art focus heavily on the emotional experience of being a human in such a strange world. They are visceral expressions of everything from confusion, anguish, and depression to joy, contentment, and divine inspiration— from reflections of my past and present to future hopes and beyond into the realm of dreams.
Capturing a Dream (Digital Video, 2018)
I have always been intrigued by the notion that not everyone experiences dreams the same way. Some people don't dream in color, some dreamers don't have audio, and there is so much personal nuance to how each of us experiences time and plot within our dream worlds. "Capturing a Dream" is an experiment in trying to share the visual and audio idiosyncrasies and common content of my own dreams: Lighting is often distorted or discolored, images are mashed together, sound is frequently absent, faint, or disjoint. I tend to dream about my teeth falling out a lot as well as looking down at my feet and walking through shallow water; reading is incredibly difficult, often with letters presenting as nonsense symbols and I jump back and forth in the timeline of dreams, creating a plot that is disbursed and nonlinear. This video was made for an undergraduate class I took in 2018, but I would love to revisit this idea and try to capture more of my own dreams or attempt to recreate others' dream worlds based on their descriptions.
Drift (digital video poem, 2018)
This experiment is what I'm calling a "video poem". It captures the feeling and visuals of flying in an airplane and thinking on a simple human's place in the universe. The video was taken and the poem was written on one of the first flights I ever took, having never flown until I was an adult and still experiencing that childlike awe at being so high-- a fascination I don't think I will ever lose, as still, every time I fly, I stare out the window the whole time, awestruck and inspired. This video, combined with the audio of myself reading the poem and some stock audio of ocean waves, seeks to capture the comfort, excitement, and eerie terror of being such a small being in a vast and tumultuous universe.
A Ritual (Digital Video, 2018)
This video project is a glimpse into the intuitive and symbolic aspects of my spiritual practice. I am typically pretty private about my rituals and I know that when a lot of folks think of witchcraft it conjures up spooky or unsettling imagery of live sacrifice and devil worship. This video confronts that perception head-on and asks the viewer to really think about each carefully selected object and interpret what it all means symbolically, and hopefully discover that what looks scary and unholy is really beautiful and optimistic. *All bones and insects used in both my spiritual and art practice are nature-found or otherwise ethically sourced. *Music in this video is "Hear Me" by Dark Dark Dark
