The works in my thesis exhibition layer the formal and syntactic structures of GMC wiring schematics, the language of attachment theory, and photographs from my infancy, to examine the role my babysitter’s 1995 GMC Suburban played in forming my attachment style. Each image projects a psychological stratification of sorts, and when the modified attachment diagrams come into contact with images from my personal archive, it becomes possible to compare the maintenance of a GMC Suburban with the infancy of a suburban baby boy.
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.
