The Chimeral States (Collodion Stills) engage with the full metamorphic potential of the human being, in terms of both psychic and physical identity. Serving as the guide or gatekeeper to secret worlds associated with sensuality and vision, the chimera stands at the threshold between the historical and the mythological. The use of the wet-plate collodion… Read more »
Party For Two2018Single-Channel VideoEdition of 4 and 2 Artist’s ProofsDimensions Variable6:18 Originally commissioned for Trans-Q Live! and performed at The Andy Warhol Museum, Party For Two depicts a fabricated reality in which Melania and Barron Trump sever ties with their patriarch. Their union is passionate and their escape is spirited, like the boy’s dream of… Read more »
The Client 2017 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 8:54 The Client negotiates contemporary relationships with currency and transaction through the lives of the entertainer and her client. Based upon observed interactions among sex workers and the roles they must adorn for their clients, a young businessman is depicted collecting… Read more »
Little Dirty Us 2017 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 4:30 Little Dirty Us indulges the interpersonal relations of a young man and the woman he loves as they navigate their discrete desires under the veil of heteropatriarchal culture. A Meissen Madonna greats the viewer, issuing the contemporary manifestation of… Read more »
In Dreams 2017 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 3:33 In Dreams is an oneiric sequence of events depicting the desires of an embryo as it imagines the ideal birth. The island of Mallorca serves as the uterine landscape from which the protagonist wanders aimlessly while reciting verses to a… Read more »
sentiment petit a consist of sixty-six cyanotypes made from images of objects in Verónica’s apartment and my own. With no specificity given regarding the owner of the objects depicted, our relationship can be experienced through the physical manifestation of a gradually shared sentiment within our respective homes. This adoption of aesthetics mimics the developmental process… Read more »
Chimeral States 5 (Loving Quicksand) 2016 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 5:05 Chimeral States 5 (Loving Quicksand) offers a hypnotic chronicle featuring the Cavalli’s, a heterosexual couple whose traditional understanding of masculine and feminine identities has dissolved in favor of the husband’s desire to be pretty. Evolution is presented… Read more »
Chimeral States 4 (Changing Eyes) 2016 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 3:44 Voluptuous and tender, raw and indulgent, endeared and coerced, Chimeral States 4 (Changing Eyes) offers a double-sided view into interpersonal motivations. The soft yet assured voice behind the lyrics requests a “reason to live” and a “reason… Read more »
Chimeral States 3 (Born Lucky) 2016 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 3:51 Chimeral States 3 (Born Lucky) examines the morphing identities of two characters of multiple genders. As in other parts of the series, these characters inhabit an enclosed digital space that symbolizes the womb. The maternal realm has… Read more »
Chimeral States 2 (All I Do) 2016 Single-Channel Video Edition of 4 and 2 Artists Proofs Dimensions Variable 4:29 Chimeral States 2 (All I Do) engages with the full metamorphic potential of the human being, in terms of both psychic and physical identity. Narration is first presented by an archetypal male entertainer, but this convention… Read more »