2015 - 2021 selected works




0636, 2021
Materials: 12 polyethylene hard hats, steel chain, steel hardware, Master Lock combination padlock
Dimensions: Variable

Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. They exist in this work as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. The artist believes machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.



year of ox, 2021

single-channel video (5min. 11secs.)

Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. They exist in this video as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. The artist believes machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.

omega screen tests, 2021

single-channel video (32secs.)

Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. They exist in this video as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. The artist believes machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.



wrap 02, 2021
Materials: 6 polyethylene hard hats, hardware, wood, nylon fabric
Dimensions: 6h x 8w x 1d (ft)




hope ur well (difficult times), 2021

Materials: Playstation 4, Farming Simulator video game, projector, scaffolding, speakers
Dimensions: Variable

Live performance in the urban garden attached to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in the meatpacking district of Omaha, Nebraska. The artist sit on scafolding playing a videogame that allows users to cultivate digital crops with realistic farm machinery. Game play involves the operation of a digital harvester to carve a message into a plot of land while audiences watch and try to figure out what the message is. This style of performance merges concrete poetry with land art, all in the virtual realm.

agco 8t, 2021

single-channel video (1min. 34secs.)

agco 8t shadows a virtual combine harvester threshing a field of corn at night in a video game world. The combine’s interactions with the corn during various stages of the harvest create graphical textures, marks and shapes which emerge from and disappear into digital darkness. Might exposure to the mechanics and processes of very large farm equipment in a virtual space prompt deeper reflection on their use IRL?

booth, 2021

Materials: Iron pipes, hardware, steel chain, wood, lights, green screen fabric
Dimensions:
7h x 4w x 4d (ft)

This modular green screen booth serves as both armature and stage for observing object and material encounters in the face of gravity. Heavy and light objects, alike, are hoisted by chain and hook onto the booth’s frame. The artist captures still and moving images of objects encountering one another and her own body. This imagery is added to an in-progress archive and body of work. The objects seen in the booth in these images are mostly debris collected around the meatpacking district in Omaha, Nebraska after the flash flood of Summer 2021.

Untitled (mean wind), 2018

single-channel video (1min. 38secs.)

Untitled (Glory), 2018

Iron pipes, modified electrical fans, hand fans, wood, pvc coupling, hardware, photo projection

Dimensions variable

Broadcast #3, 2018

Wood, plastic crates, copper coupling, soil, nettle seeds, cardboard, burlap, analog drum machine, bass envelope filter, speakers, cassette player, cassette tape, sound composition.

Sound is used as a catalyst to broadcast (scatter) seeds onto beds of soil.

Dimensions variable

Photo credit: Carlson Productions

Untitled (Story Box), 2017

Electronics, wood, valve

Users engage the valve to amplify or quiet the artist’s late father’s voice as he tells a story about learning to garden as a child. 

Untitled (Thunderstorm Terror), 2017

Electronics, cassette tape, soil, nettle seeds

A deconstructed children’s cassette tape player emits sound from a recorded thunderstorm. Whenever thunder is heard, the stinging nettle seeds situated atop the speakers vibrate. They never do make it off the speakers and onto the soil.

Strange Fruit, 2015

hande-made stinging nettle yarn sack, faux fruit, paper label

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