The thicket of becoming

MFA THESIS EXHIBITION, Carroll gallery, Tulane university

2025

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In my practice, I employ digital technology to theorize the technological opportunity to push the collaboration between natural and robotic, as a conduit for information, to automate ecological systems, and to visualize the surreal. I often work closely with microcontrollers or aquarium equipment to create self-propelling systems in which to observe or experiment. The subject matter within these spaces has included fungal and plant life; I have chosen to include these lifeforms in the work, due to how humans misunderstand and manipulate their forms for our benefit. Although, by the act of creating work using their bodies, I may be doing the very thing I am speaking against. My engagements between the human hand, technology, and the world beyond the human are intended to find communion in the function of the organic and the rigid, but may not always serve this purpose.