Art
The Three Court Residency
The Three Court Residency was a self created residency in the Leonard J Kaplan Wellness Center located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). The residency was created as a challenge to the traditional artist-studio dichotomy as a way to blur the lines between studio and commonspace. The resulting drawings from the residency were drawn onsite in the three court gym in the Wellness Center which allowed for direct contact with the community there and allowed for dialogue about the intersections of basketball and art. By drawing at the three court gym I directly challenged community members thoughts on what and where an artist makes their work. The drawings themselves are observational and are based on rules and language based approach to drawing. Each drawing is a document of a game of pickup basketball I would watch at the three court gym and are based off the rules and language thereof. These drawings challenge the notion of representational and observational drawing.
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Our Walking Tour
This project involved Sunny Spillane's Art, Education and Social Practice class. Participants were asked to pair up with another classmate and take them to a space on UNCGs campus that had some significant value to them. Every participant had their classmate record a video of them in that space/area explaining both to their classmate but also us the significance of the space. We then together watched these videos and created a walking tour together that hit every spot that the participants chose. These stories give us a richer perspective of the campus and these spaces the participants chose
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I created this project as a way to record the everyday little actions I do and subsequently forget about. Actions such as walking from one point to another, putting away items, putting shoes on etc. Inspiration for this project came from Georges Perec and his essay "The Infra-Ordinary" in which he calls on the readers to question the ordinary things in life. In recording these actions I am 1) questioning the value of the ordinary and mundane, 2) making others question the value of their everyday actions and 3) slowing down my actions to disrupt the capitalistic notion of grind culture that makes me forget these actions.
Reading Race
Reading Race is a community of creative thinkers who gathered to read Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man over the course of two months. The collective each had a book and altered the book as they read as a journal of thoughts on the events in the book. Each week we would sit down to discuss events in the book in order to have deep conversations on race and our historical and personal connection thereof. All of these conversations were recorded. Later we would create a group project together that would encapsulate things we discussed and the thoughts we had from the book. The conversations, our books and the project we did together were all shown at the Greensboro Project Space from November 4th-8th, 2019. Members are Rylee Hartsell, Christina Kelly, Dorian Leto, Paula Perez-Pulido, Trey Vanterpool, Mary Martinez, Valery Morales-Pasten, and myself. Our community's statement is this: Reading Race is a community of creative thinkers who have gathered to read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man over the course of two months to investigate the impact of race on the American consciousness and our everyday life. We build connections from the past to our historical present through personal stories and real critical thinking. We believe race should be discussed candidly and critically.
This project was partially funded by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grant.
Forms By Chance
My roommate would sometimes throw his clothes from the previous night on the ground before he would take a shower. I thought the clothing had really interesting forms so I would photograph them. This has led me to begin taking photographs of how my towel hangs after I shower. These images show how objects while still maintaining their "original form" (pants, towel, shirt, etc.) can have multiple different forms when an outside force is placed upon them.
A (decentralized) Performance in Probability and Chance
Inspired in part by artist Pedro Lasch and his Lasch vs... series. I've continued my interest in games and probability by creating a theoretically finite/infinite game of match involving a simple, standard deck of 52 cards in which the end goal of the "performance" is to catalogue all pairs of cards from left to right in a deck of cards. The catch is that after each pair you get you return them to the deck and reshuffle the deck in its entirety. So theres a finite amount of pairs yet with the constant shuffling this performance could last a lifetime and never even be finished by the original performer.
