Paintings on Cardboard (2024-2025)
​Like a banana peel, cardboard is often considered to be simply the carrier or protective vessel that is designed in service of something else deemed more valuable than itself. After fulfilling its presumed function, or deteriorated by way of use, it is discarded. As I explore performance I consider what it means to document these ephemeral interventions or expressions with the body in space. Much of that documentation exists in the form of photography and video, but I have also begun developing a painting practice as a part of the iterative practice that is documentation.
ERICAR [a Tire, Dressed for Baldness #2] (2025)
60”X94”
oil & house paint on cardboard
The composition of this piece is a composite image that uses screenshots of rehearsal footage from the performance A Tire Dressed for Baldness. This painting documents past action while reinventing spatial relationships through painting. Marks are created with brushes, rollers and the same car tires that were used in the performance the images are sourced from.
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I Know Just What You Ah Are (2024)
74”x94”x1”
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In the Britney Spears music video for Womanizer - the single off of her 2008 album titled Circus - the listener follows Britney as she calls out a man who foolishly thinks he can get away with being with many different women. In an interview about the video, she describes how it was important for her to play the part of every woman that the womanizer gets with, because “jokes on you, the woman is always Britney”. In this painting titled after a repeated phrase from the song, I filmed myself in clown makeup to recreate a screenshot from this video where Britney and the various versions of herself are positioned in a renaissance-like pose. Painted on cardboard, the piece can be folded and carried under one arm and installed anywhere with nails and tape. Each time it is installed, it is also blasted with confetti, signaling a connection, portal, or opening.
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(See below for video documentation of the performance with the painting)
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YiYa's (2024)
​46”X46”
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After Penny died we found a bunch of photos with people in them that nobody could recognize. Even though they seemed to be strangers to me, they were once beloved as much to be saved for close to the 100 years of Penny's life. I created a composite image using some of these photographs and painted them as a way of trying to understand the people I will never get to know.
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Dirt Devils (2024)
51”X48”
cardboard, masking tape, acrylic paint, oil paint, nails
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Like A Face Where Fingers Go, I Let It Take Me. I Saw You There - Faced Like We Had Been Here Before. And With Earth Under My Feet
I Made It Out. Like The Door That Let Me In. (2024)
big painting (guitar for scale)
cardboard, masking tape, oil paint, acrylic paint, spray paint, paper, fabric, vinyl pool liner (performance residue), crushed mirror (performance residue), sand (performance residue, egg, mousetrap, nails, staples, astroturf, permanent marker, oil pastels, colored pencil, bandaid
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A painting in response to the performance: Cast Above the Water
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