"Found Failure" is a continuation of my work on self deconstruction and recognition. In these videos I use objects that I find in nature to test my strength against. In these videos I ask how I impose my constructed masculine identity on the people and environment around me.
"Foundations" is a continuation of my work into self recognition. This work is a commentary on how a lack of self recognition of ones ethnicity, religion, political affiliations, ect. can directly effect those around us, often with very negative outcomes.
"White Masculinity and Christianity My Personal Construction" was done as my MFA thesis for Vermont College of Fine Arts. In this video I explore growing up without a father in a white Christian community and the effects this upbringing has on my construction as an adult.
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"Shaving" was done during my 3rd semester at Vermont College of Fine Arts. In I use my body it explore the ritual of shaving as a rite of passage into adulthood.
"Untaught Masculinity," done in 2013, is a compilation of interviews I do with my mother to explore the events, reactions and results around the death of my father.
"Lift" is a series of video performances I did in the spring of 2013. In these performances I take an object and hold it in the air away from my body as long as I can before having to set it down. These videos were an exploration of expressed physicality found in an emotionally suppressed masculinity.
"Walking" was done in the spring of 2012. This body of work focuses on the search for healing though community. Often, it is people right around us who can help us the most. Sometimes, we have a tendency to look beyond our surrounding for help only to let those closest to us, friends and family, walk right past us and out of our lives. These figures are broken, pieced together with found object, and ultimately incomplete. Together, though, they have enough strength to walk forward, stronger and complete.
I have often asked myself, what does it mean to be whole? I certainly know what it means to be empty. When I was ten years old my father was tragically killed in a plane crash, I was broken and the feeling of emptiness was overwhelming. We live in a torn, incomplete world. We use the pieces of that world to try and make us complete enough to move forward. Things… Junk. These do not make us whole. They weigh us down and ultimately break us. “Walking” is a continuation of my study into healing. This body of work focuses on the search for healing though community. Often, it is people right around us who can help us the most. Sometimes, we have a tendency to look beyond our surrounding for help only to let those closest to us, friends and family, walk right past us and out of our lives. These figures are broken, pieced together with found object, and ultimately incomplete. Together, though, they have enough strength to walk forward, stronger and complete.