Boys Like Me (Colorado, USA)

A short excerpt of an infinite loop. This video is one of three pieces made shortly after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida in February of 2018.

HD Video
2018

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Untitled (With Mom)

This piece picks up with the remains of a piece called “Full Rise, Stay New” and is part of a duo including Untitled (With Sofia).

HD Video
2017

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Unfurling Toxicity in a Degenerating Mind

The image used for this flag is a digital composite from a microscope of a slice of person’s brain with a degenerative brain disease, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. This image was supplied courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Bio-samples and Brain Bank.

Digitally printed polyester, flag, flagpole
3' x 5'
2017

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Untitled (With Sofia)

This piece picks up with the remains of a piece called “The Greatest Adventure“, and is part of a duo, including Untitled (With Mom).

HD Video
TRT: 4:01
2017

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I Was One of Them

This video is part of a group of work titled “Normalization of Deviance, To Touch the Face of God.” It is a mash up of the broadcasted Challenger launch and tragedy, and a broadcasted episode of the children’s show, Punky Brewster, called “Accidents Happen”, which was made the same year in response and designed to perform a kind of at-home-therapy. This video was exhibited in conjunction with a long exposure photo diptych of the two broadcasts, this text printed and stapled on seven standard pages, and a flag featuring a microscopic image of a slice of a human brain with a degenerative brain disease. The audio in this video played on separate speakers on the other side of the space, removed from the video.
HD video, audio, archival inkjet prints, document holder, stapled texts, flag, flagpole
2018

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To Touch the Face of God

Accidents Happen, To Touch the Face of God

This diptych is part of a group of work titled “Normalization of Deviance, To Touch the Face of God.” It sourced from the broadcasted Challenger launch and tragedy, and a broadcasted episode of the children’s show, Punky Brewster, called “Accidents Happen”, which was made the same year in response and designed to perform a kind of at-home-therapy.

This diptych was exhibited in conjunction with an audio and video piece, a text piece, printed and stapled on seven standard pages, and a flag featuring a microscopic image of a slice of a human brain with a degenerative brain disease. The audio shown in the video played on separate speakers on the other side of the space, removed from the video and in the presence of these prints.

To Touch the Face of God [00:73] – (right)
A 73 second exposure of a tv screen playing the broadcasted flight of challenger.

Accidents Happen, Punky [24:21] – (left)
A 24 minute 21 second exposure of a tv screen playing an episode of the children’s show, Punky Brewster, made in the same year as the Challenger explosion. An episode in which the child actors of the show re-enacted the phenomenon of children around the country watching the challenger explosion happen in real time on a tv in their classrooms.

Archival Inkjet Prints
40" x 60" each
2018

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Accumulated Body

A collection of videos from my father’s childhood, growing up in Texas, narrated by my father. This footage is combined with documentary footage of the destruction of personal documents from birth to my 25th birthday, for the purpose of turning the recycled paper into a life sized self-portrait for burning.

SD video, VHS, paper documents, chicken wire
TRT: 13:57
2009

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A Field Guide for the Modern Uncircumcised Male

Part social awareness film, part sex education, part experimental documentary. “A Field Guide for the Modern Uncircumcised Male” addresses issues of male communication in contemporary life, and the gaps in knowledge that are created due to the lack of this communication.

HD Video
TRT: 10:59
2009

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Electronic Transmission Process

A short video using found footage

SD Video
TRT: 4:27
January 2008

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Perpetuation of the Species

A combination of found and original footage centered on ideas about microcosms and macrocosms through simple investigations. The found footage being acquired from my local public access TV station, by whom I was employed at the time.

SD video, found and original footage
April 2008

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