Museum for
Art in Wood
I served as the Museum for Art in Wood's 2024 WARP Documentary Artist in Residence.
I spent the summer as a multimedia documentary artist alongside seven wood-based artists throughout a nine week residency. My work in the culminating exhibition Fruition and throughout the experience, reflects the space between artist, documentarian, insider, and observer — between which I had the privilege of oscillating.
While unfamiliar with most woodworking tools and techniques, this summer became an entirely textural experience as I picked up fragments of insights into each resident's artistry. These glimpses simultaneously demystity and further mystify this craft for me.
Grateful to the Museum and Windgate Foundation for valuing and elevating documentary’s role in the craft world and as an art form itself. And grateful to my fellow residents who openly shared so much with me throughout the summer.
Weekly Videos
As residents worked from Philadelphia's NextFab makers space, I created weekly narrative videos chronicling their journeys toward a final museum exhibit.
Sharing a question each week with the team, residents privately recorded audio replies. I strung these replies together with visual content I'd collected that week.
Click videos for audio + expanded view.
In Process
This multimedia collage shares visual glimpses into each resident’s processes throughout this joint experience, projected among their scraps, off-cuts, models, and tools foregrounded with a summer workbench, utilizing projection mapping and object curation. The Museum for Art in Wood acquired this piece as part of its permanent collection.
Click photos for photo credits + expanded view.
Emergence
Emergence was a Digital Media Studies Capstone multimedia installation, projected onto Rettner Hall's surfaces and ceiling at the University of Rochester. Drawing inspiration from Finnish lore, I directed a team in abstracting a creation myth that contemplatively looped, activating the space with original music, animation, projection mapping, and motion detecting interactivity. This teaser (right) brought attention to our installation through social media.
I served as the director, editor, animator.
Here I Lie
Here I Lie was conceived for Rochester New York's 2016 Fringe Festival. Alfonsina Storni's poetry and Manuel de Falla's music joined forces in this journey through the memories of a woman’s life. Taking Alfonsina’s last days as an inspiration, this one-woman piece, performed by opera singer Michele Currenti, explores loss and reconciliation through video projections, Falla’s exquisite art songs, and Storni’s heart-wrenching verses. Alberto Carrillo Casas directed this two night show.
I served as the Audiovisual Designer.
Reviewed by City Newspaper as a “strange little show… a sock in the gut,” with “haunting visuals [in which] images dance.”