Participating in a variety of cultural and archaeological processes, I attempt to super-collide then reassemble the past and present around a single object-event. A ceramic flute is designed and manufactured, used, buried and laid in repose, and is excavated to be turned into data for display. Glimpses of this off-site series of performances are seen in two works, an enlarged sherd hanging from within the skylight in the main gallery, and a construct for viewing the sherd in the darkened secondary gallery. Iād like to speak to the fraught relationship between history, the tools of perception, and materiality.
Installed as a part of the 2025 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition exhibited in The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Curated by Misa Jeffereis (Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis), Egbert Vongmalaithong (Assistant Curator, ICA at VCU), and Chase Westfall (Head of Gallery and Exhibitions, VCUarts Qatar), the 2025 exhibition reveals a cross-section of emergent practices that are rooted in collaboration, experimentation, and the urgency to make meaning in an ever-changing world.

Apparatus
(Detail)
Crepe myrtle, steel, hardware, paint, plexiglas, magnetic alligator clips, plumb bob, deconstructed radio, wiring, LEDs, microcontroller, bare copper, construction line, bone die, low-fire ceramic, dirt

Scaled Sherd
0.25ā plywood, zip ties, steel, hardware, portable radio on terrace, radio transmitter set to 98.6 FM, sound collage, polyacrylic sealer, dirt