Project 1FOREST2019 - 2024
FOREST 2019 Installation view from Sheffield Doc Fest at Site Gallery, Sheffield UK
FOREST 2019 Installation view from VRHAM! Art Festival at Oberhafenquartier, Hamburg Germany
Virtual Reality installation with sound, ~10mins - 20mins on loop variable to viewer


In collaboration with music composer Daniel Oldham, FOREST is an experimental VR piece; without a body, viewers can move freely through the interactive visual-music experience of abstract scenes –a meditative world of sculptural drawings (mushrooms, plants and ancient trees), spatialized earthy-electro sounds, and samples of experimental cello. 

The original demo was created in 2018 and exhibited internationally in 2019. The newly revised/rebuilt FOREST 2024 is coming soon.


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Project 2Anti-Gopher Trio (Yard Nuisance)2023
Video with sound, 1:40

3 channel video of three solar gopher repellents staked in the ground surrounded with dried weeds and soil. Each channel presents the repellent emitting a sonic pulse which is powered by the sun. The repellents have a variable sound (pitch and tone) and timing. Edited together, the channels perform a repellent tune.     


Staked as a boundary to prevent burrowing critters from a yard, the sonic repellents backfire creating a looping residential nuisance and dead grass. 


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Project 3Menacing Sacs2023
Brown Widow spider eggs sculpture 
Clay and cotton fibre
0.5” x 0.5” x 0.5”



Project 4Intrusive Nest2022
Photograph series of handmade wasp nests mounted in the corner of domestic contexts: a shower, a bedroom, and a basement.

Archival pigment prints on cotton rag
18” x 24”


Project 5Phase Shift: Insectile Cadence2021
Video with sound, 1:13.

2-channel animation with sound of a rotating paper wasp nest sculpture and drawings of eucalyptus and industrial tools.

Sound by composer Daniel Oldham


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Project 6Malevolent Surveillance2021
Installation photograph of the wasp paper nest sculpture mounted in front of the entry way of gallery Human Resources, Los Angeles. Part of the group exhibition “Apparitions”, Jan 20-30, 2022. Install photo by Christopher Baliwas.
Paper wasp nest sculptures
Handmade paper, newsprint and abaca fiber
7” x 8” x 9”


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Project 7Birdwatcher (Pek Pek)2021
Video with sound, 3:27.

Video of a birdfeeder and a Northern Flicker bird feeding and watching through a bedroom window frame.

Project installation as a video projection on a large wall of the exhibition space.



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Project 824 Hours: Please sign here2016
Paper (medical documents), staple, acrylic paint, and metallic gold spray paint
8”x11.5”


 

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