site-specific installation 2021
bamboo, repurposed plastic, paint, light. This work celebrates
the conservation and comeback of the Trumpeter swan.
Here in the Hereafter we Frolic
Tag: single use plastic
Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making
Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making(or the fruit of our convenience)
Site-specific installation, Maryland 2019
516″ x 120 x 180″
clear polyethylene #4 repurposed plastic, wood, filament and light 
The artwork is a spectacle of endless consumption and a reminder of how a material of our own design has become a staple of our environment and is rapidly transforming the natural world.
The installation juxtaposes the flora of the natural world, as evidenced in the lush plant life of Ladew’s Gardens, with an illuminated, ethereal hothouse of polypropylene vegetation-a human creation.
Garment Bag (hag)
Garment Bag(hag)
performance/intervention 2019
fabric, thread, filament, eye protection mask, hundreds of recycled dry-cleaning bags and wire hangers. Presented as part of Art in Odd Places:Invisible, NYC
Garment Bag(hag) considers the afterlife of human-made materials. The performance is a response to the copious amount of single-use plastic that is used to swaddle clean clothes in the cleaning industry. The flimsy clear bags are exempt from our national plastic bag bans including CA, NY, Hawaii, and most recently in Baltimore, MD. Our urban landscape houses multiple dry-cleaner establishments that generate hundreds of polyethylene, single-use plastic bags daily. Once removed from the garment, the bags are immediately thrown in the trash and end up in landfills, where each bag lasts for over 1000 years, with an environmental legacy that may last forever.
During the performance, I embody the spirit of plastic past. Wearing a garment made of re-purposed plastic bags and walking the streets from cleaner to cleaner, I offer a hanger and a garment bag as a reminder of possible solution. “Garment Bag(hag)” reflects upon the daily routines of domesticity and the hidden consequences of the cleaning establishments that effect our environment.
(dirty~clean)Cleaners
installation/performance 2019
neon sign, neon lighting, clothing rack, wire hangers, filament, collected used dry-cleaning bags, sound, 4 performers. The work is an installation by day and in the evening a participatory theatrical event. This installation, located in a gallery storefront, takes the form of a conceptual dry cleaner shop. Composed of thousands of low density polyethylene (the clear plastic used to package “clean” garments). The work reflects on the ubiquitous cleaners of our urban landscape and emphasizes the ever growing problem of LDPE plastic #4 and the use of perchloroethylene, a known toxin, to clean wearables.
(dirty~clean)Cleaners is activated with intermittent performative events. The installation considers the after-life of human made materials related to domesticity. During the performance, Sisyphean cleaning clerks endlessly fold, process and roll the ghosts of our laundry.
