My work deals with perception and awareness, exploring the dynamics of the everyday through mixed media and video. I use performance to illustrate social behavior like flirting and staying fit and use recognizable objects, such as mesmerizing ceiling fans or toy cars to challenge our casual acceptance of categorizing. I displace objects and behaviors of the everyday to encourage a quizzical and relatable dialogue to the world that forms us. In my latest work I have incorporated psychological concepts into my experimentation of perception. Perception intrigues me both in its neurological and psychological senses. Through my observations and experiments I have come to acknowledge a few certainties. To begin with, my body feels good when I observe how projected images or light pass over objects, absorbs them, and adds volume to structures.

While studying formal concepts of perception and wondering why or when my body feels good or how I emotionally respond to a space through color, I began to wonder about psychological phenomena such as the instructional behaviors conveyed by the media. I came to question even my own language and that of my friends and everyday encounters. Should my boyfriend be my best friend? Do I need to be adventurous to find love? With these kinds of social imperatives in my world, the characters of T.V. reality shows seem more plausible and describe to me a sort of Campy realignment in behavior in the everyday. I am interested in the subtle instructions absorbed from media which form our identity, the same subtle instruction that inform reality T.V. characters who are ordinary people but who become masters at playing bad taste roles. I am interested in the presented categorical models that become social standards or expectations in “real” situations. As I move forward in my practice I want to continue to investigate the physical and rational structures of perception and to describe the layers of self-awareness and identity.