Books
Music Box, (2018 - ongoing)
When I was a kid I was first chair trombone in our school's band. When they told me, I was petrified. I had memorized all the songs and was copying body language instead of reading sheet music like i was "supposed" to. In fear of being outed as legally blind/incapable I quit the band. Luckily, I never quit playing and loving music. I made these deconstructions of found, arbitrarily chosen, sheet music for children. Through cutting, rearranging and intervention I took back power from a language I could never engage with. These abstractions exist physically as 4"x 4"cards In a box and could theoretically be played. Do you know how to play any of these?
Love Letters (2017 - Ongoing)
This series, like many of my book works, is an ongoing project and is synthesized from found materials. Like many Americans who also have disabilities, I find myself being sent pounds of physical mail from the Department of Social Security annually. This is exacerbated by the duplicates I receive; one in the standard font (usually 11pt), and one in “large-print” (20pt approx.). The demanded care and repetition often reminds me of myriad ignored letters from a scorned lover who, time and time again, is attempting to reach me, plead with me, and reconcile. Inspired by this, by my frustrations with bureaucracy, ableism in the form of paperwork and by the sheer guilt of all that paper waste, I decided to rearrange the texts sent to me as “love letters”.
Contained in an envelope, these letters take on various forms, such as invitation cards, single sentence poems, micro-books, and a re-appropriated driving school flier that had been slipped into a large print letter addressed to me, asking me to re-prove my low-vision status during a bi-annual meeting.
Matchbook (2018)
Hand-printed and bound book, comprised of 12 frames of a burning match. Each book is made of 12 monoprints, with a total run of 5 books measuring 3.5” x 5.5”, approx.
places I can remember but can no longer go (2017)
After several internships working within arts archives I began to think of what would constitute my own archive. Since the age of of five or so I have taken photographs with 35mm cameras. Having been given a red Fisher Price toy camera I was equipped with the technology to take photographs of my everyday surroundings as a means to pass the time, and to understand the visual world immediately around me. In this project I selected specific images from my childhood “archive” of images and attempted to revisit the places I documented. These images explore changing technology and space in my home in suburban New York.
Postcards (2018)
Hanna Alberta, 1996
Blockbuster on Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck New York
Postcards series comprised from images sources through google maps. Each image is linked to the date, printed on the back, that logs the date of a major event in my life.
hand-bound book with paper-mache marbling, 2019
Zine Making Workshop at MoMa PS1, December 29th, 2019
Documentation of a zine making workshop I lead at Artbook at MoMa PS1 in December, 2019.
Below are images of zines I made to demonstrate a single-page zine making technique. Below those are images from the workshop.
Demonstration of how pages fold together and are sequenced.
Images sourced from recycled food magazines, provided by Artbook.
Senior Capstone
My final project at SUNY Purchase, intended to finalize, summarize and encapsulate the skills and processes I learned during my undergrad experience.
Using a scanner I selected images from my personal archive to compile an accordion photobook. The process of making this book was an act of remembrance twofold; for the events represented by the images I selected, but also the antiquated photographic media forms with which they were captured.
The accordion binding, intended to evoke filmic media forms, also allows the viewer to flip through the images out of sequence, against the spread, or simply open the book fully to see each image together in sequence.
