a multi-media creative, global utility player, exploring with words, photography, collage, installation, collaboration and performance. Drawing from communal experience, inspired by place and materials as collaborators, often crafted from hunted/found/remnant/surplus.
An insatiable linguaphile with expansive compassion, unreasonable expectations, and always a pen.
artiste multidisciplinaire et sculpteur social. Les Å“uvres comprennent la photographie, l'Ă©criture et le collage, des installations engagĂ©es par la communautĂ©, des collaborations et des performances. Les oeuvres explorant l'expĂ©rience communautaire, inspirĂ©s par le lieu et les matĂ©riaux en tant que collaborateurs, souvent fabriquĂ©s Ă partir de vestiges/excĂ©dents,/chassĂ©e/cherchĂ©e le travail maximise l'impact social avec une empreinte Ă©cologique minimale. Linguophile insatiable avec une compassion expansive, des attentes dĂ©raisonnables et toujours un stylo.
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the important thing: a heart for Michael Strange
2023 Works of Heart auction to benefit the Memphis Child Advocacy Center providers of trauma-informed team support for children & their families
a riff on Margaret Wise Brown’s book that noticed and welcomed the child’s gaze, a call for radical self-acceptance, brave love, and an end to war on autonomous nations and non-conforming bodies (oh, is that all.)
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EVICTED:Memphis Community conversation on housing insecurity
Local engagement designed for the Greater Memphis Housing Justice Project to connect local experience to the touring immersive exhibition EVICTED (National Building Museum) based on the book by Matthew Desmond. Exhibition 3 DEC 2022 - 22 JAN 2023 at the Benjamin L Hooks Central Library - Memphis.
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process collage: be the candle
Process collages follow a consistently inconsistent physical methodology designed to reduce expectations, compulsion, blockages, control, habit. Beautiful messes cut to shards.
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