Of Sedimental Skin

Of Sedimental Skin is a multi-piece installation comprised of different architectural miniatures located on three adjacent stages, each with their own accompanying video dialogue (see Fermented Landscapes and Ticks on the Ethernet Cable). These miniatures are able to be interacted (tactility encouraged) with and can freely be moved on or around the three stages by viewers, performing a physical change in the landscape.

This installation’s change in state talks about the word landscape, the ontology of what landscape was once, and how the definition of landscape does not account for the body in relationship to an environment. What makes a landscape? Classical depictions of man in nature capture the grandiose and expansivity of the natural world, but when that scale is flipped a new sense of perspective emerges. Suddenly, the macro and micro are one in the same, and the human is now the arbitrator of all scapes and is up to them to redefine and re-contextualize the world we still know so little about. We humans have our own microbiomes too. Something inside us that makes us work like the ecosystems across the world— from one landscape to another.

See me and the group show with my Grad class: CCA MFA Thesis Exhibition 2022

Of Sedimental Skin | ~80% recycled materials, acrylic, used media devices | 2021-22