old ice cooler, buckets, fishing line and cotton weaving, two 10” speakers, sandbags, vinyl poem, audio field recordings of american bullfrogs singing love songs with two-channel video projections swaying to the tune

duration:

00:31:08( audio )

00:26:58 ( video )

document: audio

2019

mortuary, single-channel video projection, lap-steel guitar, mammoth ivory, caribou antlers (borrowed), florida oranges, vinyl lettering, guitar amp, cassette player, Dm 1.3.5 progression, blue coveralls, wool blankets, extension cords

duration:

1:04:00

document: audio

2018

water collected from Monroe Reservoir, previously owned aquariums, camouflage netting, screen-printed broadcloth, O.S.B plywood, steel, wash cloth, lace, decoy ducks, clay pigeons, dinnerware, utensils, tractor seat, framed photographs, local flora and micro-fauna, fishing lures, bobbers, spools of thread, fishing line, rope, electrical chords and wiring, rod, meter stick, 2 channel video projections, projectors, media player, extension chords, amplifiers, MP3 players, 6-channel audio [ hymnal Troublesome Waters recorded by a digital choir (singing by William Staler, Christina Vines, William Charles Blanchard, Erin Tobey, Molly Fox, and Matthew Batty,) archival interviews of former residents of Elkinsville, Indiana, audio field recordings from Monroe Reservoir,] red healer.

27:17

2017

In the 1960’s the creation of the Monroe Reservoir had begun. It effectively caused generations of settlers in the Salt Creek Valley to be displaced from their homes and land. The the existing water systems were damed to replace other failing water infrastructures supporting Bloomington, and to provide flood control in lower Indiana and the Louisville area. The hundreds of farming families were moved from the estimated flood zone of the reservoir, and the towns that the people of these communities became “drowned towns” with the artificial rising of the water.

The Monroe Reservoir has since become a place of recreation and relaxation, better known as Lake Monroe. Large catfish, herons and double decker pontoon boats have created a new ecology that is a product of the muddiness of nature and culture. However, these relationships echo a more broad presumption created by capitalist myths of humyn dominion over all that is wild. Floating on the shoreline between culture and nature, I explore the murkiness of this artificial division. The current geological era of the anthropocene reveals that humynity has the power to effect the world around us, putting all species in peril. In order to shift perspectives from longing for a return to nature, my trans-disciplinary practices can establish a new place of natureculture that collapses the rupture of the dichotomy. Water Doesn’t Give A Damn provides a muddy narrative on what interconnectedness in contemporary America means all its complexity and compromise as alligators migrate north to the warming waterways.

Installation view with At Least The Dark Dont Hide It

laser engraved wooden floor tiles of found debris, detritus and roadkill, screen prints with reflective street sign ink, construction light, and extension chord, roadside cone, audio of my a cappella rendition of Hank William's Ramblin' Man during a storm, and viewers past, present and future journeys

groundhog pelt (skinned from found road kill), screen-prints of skinned groundhog on hand-made paper and mylar, found photographs, salt, animal traps, furring boards, construction fencing, donated beaver and bobcat pelts, castoreum glands, alcohol, beaver lure, discarded lawn trimmings, used hunting/trapping licenses, old DNR hunting and trapping guides, my first pellet gun, hatchet, fleshing knife, various found animal skulls and bones, Hunting: Opposing Views by Dawn Laney, The Art of Hunting by Norman Strung, 100 Years of Hunting, American Folklore, Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology by David Leeming and Jake Page, American Folklore by Richard M. Dorson, Fox fire series, Actual Air by David Berman, Undermining by Lucy Lippard various other books concerning topics of hunting and American mythology, Air Conditioning Units, found materials from the basement, T.V, video, and found video of Wild America: Watching Wildlife special.

site-specific installation

2015

Imagine, for an instance, we could hit pause or even just catch our breath when the world seems to want anything but that. An offering of respite to reimagine the world, build an empathetic future, & participate in compassionate ecologies. A time and space between material and the immaterial. Beyond the past, present, and future ….And That Is Where A Bobcat is Right Now

This portable document format exhibition explores momentary renders of ephemeral and temporal mediums. Unlike in everyday life they let us imagine non-linear time and it’s delicateness.

These works were chosen to be printed, projected, and performed.

pdf_exhibition for home printing & installations

featuring the work of : melannie monoceros, Dakota Gearhart, Christopher Mahonski, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Brandon Sward Aaron McIntosh, Joiri Minaya, Yunjin La-mei Woo