Performance, 2019
“Worn Words” is a live performance exploring the intersection of fashion, culture, and language. The artist de- and re-constructs clothing with words on it, sewing them together into new garments and new arrangements of language. Visitors are invited to both contribute their own used clothing to the project and take the refashioned garments to wear.
“Worn Words” was performed at the {Re}HAPPENING in Black Mountain, NC on March 30, 2019.
2015 - 2024
Clothing and Textile Brand, 2014-present
Sunday Shift is an independent line of clothing and accessories designed and handmade in Durham, North Carolina from sustainable textiles, low-impact dyes, and vintage materials to be kind to the world and fun to wear.
The name "Sunday Shift" comes from the central piece of the collection: a simple, fun dress that invokes the feeling of a perfect Sunday: relaxed enough for lounging with coffee and a newspaper, stylish enough for brunch with friends, comfortable enough for the farmer's market or a museum.
Sunday Shift clothing is made to wear in real life, in all kinds of situations, for a long time.
8 digital inkjet prints, 2010
“One might say that these houses in miniature are false objects that possess a true psychological objectivity. “
-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
False Objects is part of an exploration of imaginary landscapes - landscapes that are both imagined and that serve as a place for one's imagination to reside.
I started building 1"x1"x1" boxes out of paper. The boxes became houses by cutting out windows and a door or by adding a roof. Really, they were houses even before that. All you need is a box, and you have a house.
Digital video, 2010
4 min, 30 sec
Dusting (Swiffer Bikini) is a video performance that explores house cleaning as an intimate encounter of an inhabitant and her habitat. The Swiffer Bikini was handmade from common commercial synthetic dusters. Custom made Swiffer Bikinis available for sale upon request.
Digital video, 2010
4 min, 8 sec
A journey across a variety of landscapes in an apartment. Fingers Walking is one of a series of video performances exploring the experience of domestic space through the body and the imagination.
Digital video, 2010
2 min, 43 sec
Two hard surfaces meet. Head Bonk is one of a series of video performances exploring the experience of domestic space through the body and the imagination. The soundtrack was created with a metal mixing bowl and wooden spoon from my kitchen.
Installation, 2010
String/Bedroom is a 1:1 replica of the furniture in my bedroom from the apartment in Boston I lived in from 2007 to 2011. The outlines of the furniture are made with white cotton cord filled with thin metal rods suspended 24" above the gallery floor.
Landscape interventions, 2009-2010
A series of interventions with the winter landscape of Boston, MA. After several successive snow storms without thaw in between, plowing had pushed ice and snow into a dirty, frozen wall. I selected pieces of ice from the plows, wrapped them in thread and yarn from my fibers collection, and left them where I had found them. I returned to the site of the intervention 24-hours later to photograph any changes to the object. In many cases the object - both thread and ice - had completely disappeared.
Video performance, 2009
45 min
In Postcard No Buildings, I used a permanent marker to black out the buildings in a postcard of the Boston skyline.
Video still from Postcard No Buildings
Live video performance, 2011
Live, remote video performance from my apartment in Brooklyn, NY projected in a gallery in Boston, MA for a collaborative event titled fauxShow. For the performance, I participated via Skype in a fabricated artist panel. I answered all questions with a randomly-selected Werner Herzog quote.
Image credit: Lou Susi
