Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. A cat’s a better mother than you.

Video & sound composed from frames extracted from the films “Gone With the Wind” & “The Godfather” to create a new visual and aural narrative. [April 2011]

An Obeisance to Marshall Applewhite

An Obeisance to Marshall Applewhite is a hotel room installation included in Showtel 8 at Hotel Biba in West Palm Beach, Florida. Teaming together with Jordi Williams we created a installation that transformed the room into a new realm.

Viewer-participants are invited to become fully emerged in sound, light, video and texture approximating an artificial plant grow-room in space. Plastic plant-clumps and an astroturf floor set an eerie backdrop for a spacey soundscape created live by a spaceman cult leader. Surrounded and disoriented by darkly reflective walls and ceiling, viewers may lounge on shiny pods amid the synthetic landscape to bask with the members of Heaven’s Gate outside of space and time. [April 2010]

Male Chauvinist Pig (Ode to Biff)

Chauvinism, in its original and primary meaning, is an exaggerated, bellicose patriotism and a blind belief in national superiority and glory. Male chauvinism has occurred probably since the dawn of man and it continues to this day. As a symbol of the penultimate male, imagery of Sean Connery appears in a storefront window with typical male chauvinistic jokes superimposed overtop. [March 2010]

FUSpaceman

FU Spaceman is an evolving collaborative project with Zak Hemsteger and Ryann Slauson. The project came to fruition during the Contain It! exhibition in Dunedin, Florida. For the exhibition, artists were invited to create an installation inside a movable storage POD. The idea of having a contained space started to become relative to the ideas of space travel and eventually evolved in the idea of containing oneself in a space pod.

The live a/v performances contain video and intimate soundscapes produced by myself while both Zak and Ryann play drum kits, while we as a whole create a live improvisation related to our surroundings. While the first performance was in a contained space, we have continued to approach the ideas in new ways taking to performing at new venues and events. [February 2010 - Current]

disLocation Tampa

disLocation Tampa was a collaborative exhibit with Justin Martin in February of 2010 at the William and Nancy Oliver Gallery in Tampa, Florida. At the center of the exhibition are 1600 photographs, all pulled from the photosharing site Flickr, all triggered from the keyword Tampa. Each photograph, printed at the common four by six inch size are placed on the wall in stacks. The viewer is invited to remove, replace and reorganize the photos creating new compositions. At the same time, video projections of YouTube videos and current Twitter feeds around the central theme of Tampa are being displayed on the walls. A blank map of Hillsborough County Florida was also on display, viewers were invited to mark on the map in any way they felt necessary in order to respond to the exhibition.

A Twitter Feed and Tumblr Blog were set up for the exhibition as well. [February 2010]