jobs and passions
this project focuses on jobs and passions, and where those two areas of our lives intersect and diverge. here my questions center around peoples' ideas of what "work" should be, when dreams should be followed and when they should be subordinated to what "has to be done" to survive, and how people negotiate the relationship between getting paid and following their dreams.
innerviews
my project “innerviews”, is grounded in the idea of exchange. in the context of this project, exchange is the way that we, as a community, give and receive reciprocally…
brooklyn
almost invariably, when one thinks of a successful artist, the first image that comes to mind is the lone individual, a man, painting with incredible seriousness and gravity…
crush cards
this project sprang out of a desire to get people talking to the people it’s hardest to be honest with: crushes. the crush (or the encounter) may have lasted one night…
the wedding gift
this project sprang out of trying to figure out what to get two separate couples, who were getting married. each couple had lived with each other for a while, and seemed to have pretty much all they’d need.
exhibiting symptoms
this was an art piece involving text and image, which addressed having a debilitating disease. the subject matter was tightly based on my mother, and her battle with acute multiple sclerosis.