“little deaths”
Yarn, glass, water, performance
1 hour
2016
[first draft: short clip below]
What is death? Is it something that happens once in a lifetime or do we experience little deaths every year, month, day, over and over in an infinite cycle? How do we trust or relate to others in our most vulnerable moments? These are some of the questions I considered when orchestrating this performance. This piece interacts with isolation and relation, beginnings and endings, and how talking about death informs life. Facing our own death is a path we must walk alone yet at the same time death is an inevitable part of everyone’s life. We are unified through our own mortality.
Existentialism has been a pervasive influence in my work as an artist and therapist and my personal experiences with death have led me to working with others who contemplate their own mortality through their experiences with cancer. As existentialism is not widely discussed within the therapeutic realm in the U. S., I feel it is important to create a comfortable space for discussions on death and dying. I support and encourage my clients to use artistic practices as a personal language within the therapeutic space in order to facilitate communication with the self about death anxiety.
"Skin" is a performance I did for Mobius as a work in progress and for The Good Question Gallery in New Jersey.
Performance, Installation: fabric and flour, Video mixing
2011
This particular "Wii Whorld" performance was a collaboration between myself, Jeff Matson, and Chris Korda. I made the dress while Jeff and Chris were responsible for the "Wii Whorld" collaboration. As I moved, I could control the image on the screen to respond to my movements. For more information on the "Wii Whorld" project, click
“Expansion Dress” Performance seen with Wii Whorld
Fabric, Nintendo Wii-Mote, Whorld software
Dress and movement made by artist
Duration: 30 Minutes
2008
Video Paintings
"Expansion"
Video painting
4:3 aspect ratio
2006
"Contraction"
Video painting
4:3 aspect ratio
2006
"Hidden"
Video painting
4:3 aspect ratio
2006
"Revealed"
Video painting
4:3 aspect ratio
2006
"Dual Body"
Wood, paint, video, mirrors, sound
5’7”high x 1’deep x 1’wide
2006-2007
"Inner War" with "Dual Body" @ Pure
Fabric, mylar, PVC, wood, paint, video, mirrors, sound, performance
Installation approx. 20’ in circumference, and 20’ high
Performance Duration: 3 Hours
2006
Experiments with video feedback