Through drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installation, I map the hidden infrastructures of the environments we inhabit, balancing my gaze between the collective systems of the city and the intimate, domestic taxonomies of personal survival. My practice examines the constant friction between our desire for individual privacy and our total reliance on the structures, spaces, and strangers around us. Using technical pens and other drawing tools, I translate these transient moments into life-sized environments, turning flat drawings into walkable architectural ruins that embody the tactile weight and immateriality of shared time.

This slow, obsessive drafting process functions as a continuous, systematic archive. My work stems from navigating a massive, overwhelming emotional and environmental weight; for me, the only way to survive it is to build a beautiful, meticulous cage around it with thousands of tiny ink lines. Whether I am documenting the overlooked systems of public maintenance or sorting through the fractured pieces of my own everyday coping mechanisms, I treat the page as a psychological ledger. This fiercely disciplined method gives a profound sense of permanence to the fleeting markers of our surroundings, proving that tracking the invisible upkeep of a city is deeply tied to the daily preservation required to keep a human life in motion.

This investigation moves fluidly between the microscopic and the monumental, living in hand-held ephemera and scaling up to rigid wooden frameworks layered with heavy, wallpapered paper. By constantly balancing distinct drawing styles and building deep nuance directly into the surfaces of these objects, I create a crazy, immersive world that pulls the viewer entirely inside. Ultimately, this grounded, deeply human accumulation of marks serves as a physical record of endurance, creating a space where we are forced to confront what it feels like to pay radical, urgent attention to the fragile systems that keep us whole.

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Blended Complexities examines the omnipresence of the industrial corn economy through the lens of everyday consumer goods. The work maps an expansive index of consumption, tracing corn as both a central ingredient as well as an invisible presence underlying many industrial manufacturing processes. Dispersed throughout our daily routines, fragments of this single crop reveal the quietly expanding infrastructure of modern capital and production. While Blended Complexities is depicted as a mapping of connectivity through corn, it acts as a broader critique of system relationality and how diverse material items (and the economies surrounding them) are fundamentally linked.

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