Weight (2022):
From You I Am Removed / Christ's Dog / Carcass of Beef

What is the weight of weightlessness?

In this body of work, I am dissecting strain in the passage of mourning. The higher something is suspended, the more it is anemic. Your consciousness escapes you as you are increasingly elevated. Displays of life lost are similar in history yet contradictory in signification. On the one hand, elevation alludes to icon worship - holy beacons of god’s light in space. It is meant to guide you. On the other hand, it recalls violence. Suspension is also frequented in mocking methods of punishment, publicly humiliating and dehumanizing the suspended figure. It is meant to ward you off and shun you. This antithesis exists in the same history, in the same space. I work with material in methods that embrace both restoration and rupture. My work inhabits this tangle of thorns with little intention to find its way out. Sometimes there is no reconciliation.

Mourning is the ache for reconciliation.

My mourning remains intertwined with family, religion, culture, history, and the inevitable future of mourning. We do not ever stop mourning. It is without end, yet despite the strain to do so, our attempts to mourn are inexhaustible.