Thorough Scrubber (2024) is an experiential assemblage piece built on discarded plastic. The woven plastic casing once housed a roll of canvas, maintaining cleanliness on the inside by taking the brunt of dirt collected during shipping. Enforced with PVA and thick scratchy burlap, the substrate gained a stiff cracking texture. A variety of mediums are used in this piece, including magazines, plaster, discarded materials, oil paint, spray paint, paint sticks, pen, ink, colored pencil, crayon, melted wax wood glue, PVA glue, sewing, melted plastic wrapping, honeyed tea, SCOBY and rotting food. Discarded materials present in the piece are both found in the street and from my personal trash. They include crushed cans, soda tabs, bottle caps, razor blades, safety pins, nails, screws, an advil bottle, a bloody bandaid, a doll, exit signs, human hair, glass, nail polish, broken dishes, masking tape, receipts, leather scraps, cut up jeans, gauzy fabric, buttons, grapefruit, apple, lime, a beef jerky package, and plastic keychains. The materials were layered in various attachment styles to create a thick, chewy surface. This piece pushes a grotesque bodily sensation in the viewer, almost as if they are getting stuck to the work. Thorough Scrubber is inspired by my personal experience with OCD, and aims to confront audiences with a visual overwhelm.

Idiom (2024) is a piece rooted in the practice of drawing, explicitly concerned with how texture and form interact to create moments of visual interest through the action of mark-making. I made the piece thinking a lot about traces of action and being in connection to physical mark. The piece contains written confessionals, found objects, a receipt, a crushed can, discarded plastic, and magazine clippings, which work together to create a disarming visual whole.

Idiom is a sibling piece to Thorough Scrubber, building on the canvas substrate that was once housed in the woven yellow wrapper. Together, the pair consider the dynamic between the container and the contained, thinking of the works as bodies that hold each other.