Hard Copy
2023-ongoing
inkjet prints, pen, marker on paper
Dimensions variable, 9.5 x 13 in /ea
These are selections from the the first two chapters of Hard Copy, an ongoing five chapter series. The series departs from a five-page, handwritten document recording the 107 items purchased over the course of one day in 1977 from Giovanni’s Room, the first LGBT bookstore to open in the US in 1973. The backside of the prints are scanned flyers advertising for local and national LGBT events found archived alongside the pages. The sales document and flyers wer scanned from the Giovanni’s Room records held at the John J. Wilcox Jr. Archives at the William Way LGBT Community Center In Philadelphia.
Hera (no. 95, ch. 5), 2023
Images from ‘Theories of Relativity’ at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia
photographs by Constance Mensh
Lavender Jane Loves Women (no. 103, ch.5), 2023
The Well of Loneliness (no. 91, ch. 4), 2023
Womens symbol chain (no. 106, ch. 5), 2023
Philadelphia Gay News (no. 98, ch. 5), 2023
First Person Plural
2024
Sound installation
FM transmitter, digital media player, 5 AM/FM radios, 3 benches, boundary chain live microphone, microphone stand, isolation shield.
10 min 11 seconds, looping at 15 min intervals
Dimensions variable
First Person Plural is a sound installation of five FM/AM radios that are dispersed throughout the exhibition placed on top o benches and inside the two bathrooms. The sonic material is from a performance of my live, recorded, and digital voice that occurred at the opening of Whats a Public For at Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. In the performance my voice(s) speak to one another and project throughout the space through radios while I remain present in the space of performance, partially visible behind a wall. The written and spoken script references historical moments of collective listening and questioning of truth; the truth of history, of voice, of time, and of being deceived.
Performance photography by Catching On Thieves
The Timbre of Distance
2023
Video and sound installation
1 channel video, 4 channel audio, recorded and synthetic voice, plexiglass, speakers, benches
8:29 min, looping
Dimensions variable
The Timbre of Distance, an 8:29 minute looping video and four-channel audio installation consisting of scrollin voice banking scripts, recorded and banked voice, benches, and plexiglass. The piece delves into voic banking–a technology designed to preserve one’s voice, described by the voice synthesizing company Descript, as a tool to encapsulate, “one's identity and essence.” Voice banking is primarily utilized by individuals with M or ALS, and through technological advances is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. In the installation, both my recorded voice and banked voice recite the rolling scripts appearing in white against varying blue background derived from the corresponding company's branding. Initially legible, the scripts gradually blur as successive layers accumulate, ultimately disintegrating into a visual and auditory cacophony that emphasizes the tone and resonance of voice over the words spoken. By exploring the proposition and yearning for voice to encapsulate a person’s tru and singular essence the work looks to the multiplicity of voice and focuses on the distance and gap created durin the process of transferring a live voice to a cloned voice revealing what gets generated and lost along the way.
Assist
2023
inkjet prints
dimensions variable, 8x10 in /ea
Assist is a series of twenty seven inkjet prints consisting of photographs and texts that depict common tools and assistive
devices. The works are fragmented interventions of language used in design patents and instructional manuals arranged with
close up photographs of design elements referencing where a body is expected to meet an object such as grips, dimples, and
grooves.
2023
inkjet prints
dimensions variable, 8x10 in /ea
Assist is a series of twenty seven inkjet prints consisting of photographs and texts that depict common tools and assistive
devices. The works are fragmented interventions of language used in design patents and instructional manuals arranged with
close up photographs of design elements referencing where a body is expected to meet an object such as grips, dimples, and
grooves.
Scores for breath (pair I)
2022
Spirometers, air, plastic tubing, connectors, custom fabricated metal stands, vacuum, mechanical timer
Dimensions variable
The duration runs for 1 min every 15 min referencing the recommended frequency one should move their body.
