bodies in light presents a record of everyday bodily and object life, which explores in a multiplicity of textures and time cycles, experiences of the post-partum body as a latent portal: an empty moving home carrying within it the memory of opening.
4 channel site specific video projections
misc. sizes and lengths, on loops, air conditioner, vellum
videos include: double curtain, bath breath, dust corner, window;
2023
window asks what happens between an image and its reflection? Tell the truth, but tell it slant (dickenson), an intentional refraction creates a chasm where questions of place, time, and disorientation emerge.
light projection, video (2:42, loop), plant and window
2022
nowhere, is a series of collages and cut outs created from old military albums and historic landscape photography of the 1960s, when my father was in the military. The work investigates what Munira Khayyat calls “naturalized war”, when war is so pervasive in a place, that it becomes naturalized into the landscape. Juxtaposed are photos of family members, many of whom were refugees, with their contexts cut-out, their backdrops replaced with everywhere and nowhere, wherever the viewer happens to be when they pick up the photo and look upon it.
Cut-outs, collages from military albums and landscape photography albums, family photographs, misc. sizes
2022
lamp records a shapeshifting everyday object. By playing with the amount of light coming into the camera, this work follows the different phases of the lamp, from burned out sun to moon sphere and back again
video (3:36, loop) and reflections
2022