Diorama & Sculpture

Dead Ringer
Diorama (resin figures, paint, wood, paper, and concrete)
2023

In my art practice, I am photographically documenting the remains of public telephone fixtures, having visited hundreds of locations throughout the U.S. This diorama depicts a scene recreation of one of the series’ images, Appreciated at Citgo (2019). The inclusion of a photographer figure aiming his camera at the scene serves to reference my own process as an artist - a ‘dead ringer’ of myself.

Untitled (Works for OFF-BRAND)
Dioramas; wood, scenery grass and shrubs, decorative stones, resin, alarm clock, boot, spackling putty, HO scale figures
2019

Artifacts
Wax-Cast VHS Cassettes
2014

In Artifacts, I am visually communicating the idea of generation loss to the viewer through a series of VHS tapes to be read (from left to right) as deteriorating between each generation. The process of making wax casts speaks to the process of recording and re-recording information onto video tapes, as both accumulate visible artifacts with each copy. Additionally, I am labeling these cassettes as artifacts - something ancient that was once coveted by entire generations of people, and then lost and forgotten to the next.