Installations

While the web-based nature of my practice has facilitated meaningful exchanges, the absence of physical interactions is often jarring. My installations aim to showcase the physical human layer that is often overlooked when one experiences my work online, highlighting the fragmented frenzy of the Internet next to the affect and physicality of real space. This interaction between an online platform and the gallery questions and celebrates the use of mainstream media practices within a contemporary art context.

IN OTHER WORDS, AMBIVALENCE
Foothills Art Center Golden, CO, USA
August 2020

On August 8th, 2019, I asked strangers on Instagram: “What are two opposite emotions you often feel at the same time?” Within 24 hours, I received hundreds of responses: a flood of mixed feelings, some unique, some universal. There were too many to remember, I felt compelled to draw every one. But how do you draw conflicting emotions? Do they belong together on the same page, or do they deserve their own individual space? Are they opposites, or are they different sides of the same feeling; a mirror image of the same emotion, shown in reverse, in a slightly different light? This piece thoughtfully contradicts itself and asks questions that are more meaningful left unanswered. In other words, this piece is a visual expression of my ambivalence depicted through the words of others: In Other Words, Ambivalence.

AS SEEN ON TUMBLR
The New Gallery, Artist run center, Calgary, AB
November 2018

In 2011, I started a series of ambivalent drawings, that I posted on Tumblr (ambivalentlyyours.tumblr.com). In time, people started sharing my drawings, and as was customary on Tumblr at the time, also started asking me for life advice. Not feeling qualified to tell anyone what to do, I decided to reply with drawings instead, illustrating the feelings expressed in the questions I received. These collaborations with strangers online were collected, transcribed, and exhibited in my ongoing interactive piece “As Seen on Tumblr”.