Setting up repeat gestures of inquiry, I ask the viewer to pull apart relationships between what is generally assumed and what I am implying. My solo and collaborative projects address social constructions of indifference and how technology interrupts notions of the self. Questioning why my skin is privileged and my sex is engendered, I use digital media to highlight stereotypical roles that are culturally performed rather than biologically determined. Working from the inside out I set up experiments for myself, refiguring information structures so that they may be experienced as narratives, performances and actions. I see my recent work as mythic archaeology. Merging handmade and digital processes, I treat video as a fluid material composed of time-based patterns that can be dissected and reassembled. These visual experiments developed from collected imagery of rural Virginia, a place I had to leave to better understand.
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