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A clip of a famous American televangelist is extracted from a sermon that drifts from the Mayflower covenant to personal health and immortality. A single moment recounting whether to give a stranger $5, $20, or $100 is isolated, slowed, repeated and its audio manipulated. The sermon’s narrative dissolves, replaced by the affective weight of indecision. The man he refers to is now deceased; his widow sits in the audience, listening. What remains is a suspended gesture of deliberation framed as moral theater.
A clip of an American pastor is extracted from a sermon. A single gesture is isolated, slowed down, and looped, replacing the sermon entirely. Standing still he closes his eyes and says, “Drifting away lukewarm, and you get blind in the end.” A logo for his church is superimposed on the bottom right corner of the screen. In the background, an unattended drum set sits in blue light. Audio from the original sermon is manipulated and is composed of sub-bass, bass and lower-midrange frequencies.
Highly Effective People is a two-channel video work pairing conservative political commentator Glenn Beck with self-help author Stephen Covey. In one frame, Beck delivers a televised eulogy, recounting Covey’s repeated praise for his role in “making the country better.” Adjacent to this, Covey appears before a paying audience, outlining his strategy for influence as personal salvation. The juxtaposition flattens tribute into sales pitch, collapsing eulogy, branding, and national aspiration into a continuous performance of belief.
A leather motorcycle bag, modeled after traditional saddle bags, was recovered from a site of unclaimed belongings on land being informally homesteaded in the Northeastern United States. The object traces a lineage between mobility, abandonment and frontier claiming.
A tube television faces a recliner chair in a staged domestic arrangement. On screen, looped scenes from 1930s and 1940s Western films play in sequence: a man signs a document among assembled power; a horse rears, tethered to a stake; a lone man, bound, rides on a buckboard wagon. The original audio is stripped and manipulated, leaving behind a fractured soundscape. The installation stages a choreography of submission and control, where gestures of agreement, resistance, and restraint cycle without resolution.
Clips repeated from three western films are stacked vertically with manipulated audio. In the center, a man is tricking a slot machine with a coin on a string. At the top, a herd of cows kicks up dust. At the bottom, a mannequin hangs from a horse running towards the viewer.
Clips repeated from three western films are stacked vertically with manipulated audio. In the center, a man is blindfolded by another man on a horse. At the top, a group of men tie down a calf. At the bottom, a man loses control of a wagon and crashes.
Untitled, 2020. Found cement block with iron rod; 7.75 x 15.5 x 5 in.
The cement blocks were found on a beach. They were part of government built infrastructure that has eroded into the ocean. The infrastructure originally sat on land that was scouted, rejected, and later colonized by English Separatists in the 1600s.