THE STU

BFA Senior Exhibition

I explore and highlight the relationship between the individual and the commodified environment that they live in. Developing the idea that a person’s basic needs, wants, desires, and energy are only in service and represent the over productive environment it inhabits. I showcase this by utilizing “limiting devices” where the perceived object of desire is removed, obscured, distorted, or channeled through other restrictive objects, such as doors, pressure valves, pipes, levers, plastic, boxes, etc. These devices act as a membrane, allowing the subjects and figures to interact with their environment and create a space where I can pose questions and ideas that result from this product-oriented environment. Such as what it means to be authentic? Release vs Restriction, the voids of spirituality and the illusion of control. The utilization of these devices not only helps me when it comes to the conceptualization of new ideas and projects but also helps me understand how my work functions and why. My work presents the quiet and forgotten infrastructure that shapes its environment, of the figures that lose themselves to their excess and fall into the cracks, becoming indistinguishable from their surroundings. Of the objects that are designed to lubricate and transfer the capital of this environment ultimately rejecting their permanence and decaying silently.