Empty Rooms Series

Room with a desk chair with shadows over it

Artist Statement:

Repetition, ritual, and endurance on a daily scale form the basis of my practice, and are used as a way to blur art with my normal routines and experiences.

My practice relies heavily on documentation, and the viewer of my work often sees artifacts, evidence, or other residue left over from actions taken in my personal life. Constantly documenting and building archives, I become a sort of anthropologist and collector of my own life and experiences, eventually presenting some of these documents. The tension of how much to show is very present in my practice, as the intersections and connections between vulnerability, interaction, generosity, narcissism, and isolation are elucidated.

This selection of projects reflects the usual ongoingness that defines my practice, and focuses on a very specific element of my life and practice where I engage in meeting strangers via the internet. I grew up sneaking into chatrooms as a child, first confessed my love to someone through a video chat conversation, and have an online catalogue of my friends due to social media sites. It’s no wonder why I am drawn to meeting people and relating to them through social media, and in these projects I present images I have collected and made over the course of some of these meetings. In these works, the digital and physical collide as I work through ideas of closeness, vulnerability, intimacy, place, gender norms, and identity.