The Disappearing Suit is an offshoot of the #selfiesuit. When I wear this mirrored suit in natural, isolated environments I begin to dematerialize. This project explores the tensions between analog and digital experience, as well as my longing to achieve one-ness with nature. I have documented this work in a series of photos and an edited video. Special thanks to Max Johnson for photographing the project, and Tammy Chang for shooting video.
Please inquire about photographic print editions (40” x 30” and 53” x 40”) through the contact portion of the site.
VIDEO : Disappearing Suit (2021)
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I began this series of drawings during a fellowship at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts. Exploring the impermanence of built structures in the landscape, these drawings on paper consist of geometric or architectural forms in white pastel pencil covered with layers of sumi ink.
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Special thanks to Jonathan Bloom for photographing these drawings.
38 ½” x 23 ½”
48 1/2” x 31 1/2”
48 ½” x 32” , SOLD
39” x 23 ½”
48 ½” x 32”
36 ½” x 23 ½”
36 ½” x 23 ½”
48 ½” x 32 ½”
48 ½” x 32” , SOLD
36 1/2” x 23 1/2”
23 1/2” x 38 1/2”
38 1/2” x 23 1/2”
48 1/2” x 32 1/2”
48 1/2” x 32 1/2”
42 ½” x 23 ½”
37” x 23 1/2”
Tablets is a series of sculptures in cast concrete and powder coated steel. I cast motherboards, ribbon cables and other artifacts of obsolete technology, creating a modern-day fossil record displayed on museological bases and mounts. These are meant to be viewed and touched, their surfaces containing a language as mysterious to me as ancient cuneiform.
9 ¾” H x 9 ¾” W x 12” D
7” H x 30” W x 12” D
7 ½” H x 10 ½” W x 10” D
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Firebox is inspired by the many fire alarm boxes that dot the corners of San Francisco. Pre-dating telephone technology, these boxes were hardwired to the nearest fire station via telegraph. The video is an excerpt--the full-length video is 16 1/2 minutes.
#selfiesuit is a project in which I reverse the polarity of the typical selfie by wearing a mirrored suit. If you take my photo in the suit, you are taking a selfie. If I take a selfie, I am taking a photo of you.
If something occurs in your life and it isn't documented, posted to social media, and liked, did it really happen?
This video shows portions of performances from October, 2016, in San Francisco and Oakland.
In this video, I took the #selfiesuit into more natural environments—a precursor to the Disappearing Suit.
Site specific installation at Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture Park, Valley Springs, CA.
painted redwood, concrete, oak trees
16' wide x 16' deep x 6' high
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cast concrete, steel, paint, canned food, can opener, dirt, grass
14" diameter, 12" deep
See for yourself: 38.5382, -121.7494
Las Colinas (The Hills, in Spanish) is a sculpture I created for Lifelong Medical Care’s Ashby Health Center in Berkeley. When viewed head-on, this piece appears to be a simple series of wooden boards protruding from a dark-stained background. As one walks closer, subtle contours emerge. The composition of these contours was informed by the topography of the Berkeley Hills, subtly linking the piece to the local landscape. The three panel sculpture is 12 feet wide, in solid cherry and stained alder plywood.
The Digital Trust Hike was a performance in which I tried to replace all of my senses with apps on my smartphone. I walked the length of Taylor Street in San Francisco from Market Street to the Embarcadero. I navigated by following the blue dot on google maps, recorded various data using a GPS tracking app, and live-tweeted my progress, while never looking up from my phone. I had friends stationed at every intersection (29 in total). When they saw me coming, they called me and talked me safely across the street.
This route line is so squiggly due to inaccuracies — "noise" — in the GPS data. However, I did go briefly off course at Chestnut Street.
This video was shot in 2 locations--Battery Commander's Stations at batteries Rathbone and McIndoe in the Marin Headlands, CA. I placed my tripod at the spot where the range-finding telescopes in both stations used to rest, and shot footage with a slowly rotating camera. Since the interiors of the two stations are nearly identical, and both encompass roughly the same view, I was able to splice together the footage shot at both stations in 2 places, creating an endless loop of reflexive surveillance as the vantage bounces back and forth from one station to the other.
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RED / BLUE is an ongoing piece I conceptualized the day after the 2016 presidential election. I went for a hike that morning and came across a survey marker delineating the boundary between Alameda and Contra Costa counties in Northern California.
As I was thinking about the intense political polarization we are experiencing, I decided to create my own boundary markers, cast in bronze. I will place these markers on county lines that have the highest differential between Republican and Democratic voters according to voting data from the 2018 California gubernatorial election.
I have begun installing these markers throughout California, and will continue to do so until they are gone.
The saturation of color for each county corresponds to the margin of victory for Republican or Democratic candidates.
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wood, steel, paint, reflective tape, light, concrete, dirt
gate: 125" W x 42" H x 19" D
vacant lot: 500' W x 900' D
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steel, cast iron, paint, hardware, concrete, dirt, saguaro cactus
69" wide x 51" high x 11" deep
The Next Sequel is an online archive of handwriting samples:
It is important to me to preserve the written word before digital forms of communication render it completely obsolete. The phrase "the next sequel" is something I discovered when I was going through some boxes of old papers. It was in my grade school handwriting, but I have no recollection of its origin.
If you would like to submit a sample for the archive please get in touch via the "contact" section of my website.
Special thanks to Tyler Schmidt for building the online archive.
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plywood, steel, paint, hardware, water
24" wide x 40" high x 29" deep
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burlap, wire mesh, wood, tennis balls
17” wide x 13” high x 78” deep
