Artist Statement

I like to perform a sort of psychological anthropology via performance and the photo/video document. I am especially attracted to performative gestures, scenarios and iterations that signal the complexities of relationships with others, oneself and the future.

My most recent work explores specifically both physical and experiential aging, as I've witnessed through my family and myself. I discovered that vulnerability as revealed by a parent to his/her child becomes a complicated point of power exchange and role reversal. Child becomes caregiver and simultaneously loses her caregiver in the process. In this sacrifice, the mythology of one's parents (and one's belief in it) crumbles and a deeper intimacy occurs in its failure. In our failures we begin to see each other and ourselves and draw closer together. This point of power exchange, in all its manifestations is what I am most interested in.

This work, along with the recent photographic Future Self-Portraits series, has been time spent in preparation for the future, practicing for the perceived "inevitable."