description
This practice re-imagines and contextualizes existing architecture in ways that reveal implicit social structures. Tracing the borders that separate religious from state and secular order, the arenas where this work overlaps occur and intrude between different conventions of thinking, creating space for broader systems to emerge. I release these architectural subjects from their pragmatic limitations and extract histories, symbols, and implications of power and authority embedded within them.
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Arrested Ascent
2011
Laser Cut and Etched Acrylic, Projected Light, Braided Steel Wire
Arrested Ascent presents the image of a sanctuary hung inverted, affording the impression of a ship hull and keel. The prismatic virtual object deconstructs projected light and text describing the incidents which occured the night of my brother’s death by brutal police shooting 5 years ago.
