The sun shines with a brilliant late afternoon glow onto a matico plant that the artist holds in their hands close to their core. Matico, also called Piper aduncum, hierba del soldado/soldier’s herb, spiked pepper, and many other names, has long been used in the Andes for wound healing, to stop bleeding, as an antiseptic, and to aid digestive issues among many other benefits. A nipple peaks out from behind a bushy bundle of green leaves with long curved very thin green peppers, textured and speckled white. A closer look shows a post-op flat chest, belly hair, and a tiny T4T tattoo by their hip.
Matico y el Sol
Digital C-print
2025
Dozens of rapid home Covid tests are painted bright red and stacked like a Jenga tower. The tower is arranged mid-game so there are tests missing here and there among the rows of 3. It rests on a pedestal made of mirrors on every side which reflects the red tower downwards. We see the pedestal from a three fourths angle in front of a white wall and on gray concrete floor which are reflected on the sides of the pedestal.
RED LINES
Used Covid Tests, Paint and Mirror Pedestal
36.25” x 12” x 12”
2024
Dozens of rapid home Covid tests are painted bright red and stacked like a Jenga tower. The tower is arranged mid-game so there are tests missing here and there among the rows of 3. It rests on a pedestal made of mirrors on every side. Here we see a close up of the red tower that is reflected downwards in the mirror that it sits on.
RED LINES
Used Covid Tests, Paint and Mirror Pedestal
36.25” x 12” x 12”
2024
A wooden headboard is flipped vertically on its side and attached to a white wall, jutting out at an angle while crushing a book underneath. The surface of the headboard is covered in cork, like a cork board, and a variety of paper clippings are tacked onto it, scattered with some overlapping.
Fortress Gate (Gemütlichkeit)
Wood Headboard, Cork, Book, Paint, T-Strap Gate Hinges, Tacks, Clips, Refrigerator Door Handle, Vintage Press Photos, Vintage Magazine Clippings, Printed Brochure Clippings, Book Page, Vintage Postcard, Personal Document Clippings, and QR Code
57.5” x 34" x 8.5"
2024
A wooden headboard is flipped vertically on its side and attached to a white wall by silver metal gate hinges. A long silver metal refrigerator handle is attached like a door handle. The work juts out from the wall at an angle while crushing a black book underneath with the words “The Empty Fortress”.
Fortress Gate (Gemütlichkeit)
Wood Headboard, Cork, Book, Paint, T-Strap Gate Hinges, Tacks, Clips, Refrigerator Door Handle, Vintage Press Photos, Vintage Magazine Clippings, Printed Brochure Clippings, Book Page, Vintage Postcard, Personal Document Clippings, and QR Code
57.5” x 34" x 8.5"
2024
A close up image shows a sample of overlapping and laminated documents alongside paper clippings of text attached with metal clips and tacks. Magazine and press photos include lines such as “At the start, appalling gallery of madness”. A text description of a TV special presents Dr. Howard A. Rusk as an “apostle for the disabled” and describes quote, "the need to restore serious disabled persons to a useful, rewarding life". Another clipping from a psycho-educational evaluation lines up with the phase “Living Life the Autly Way”.
Fortress Gate (Gemütlichkeit) (detail)
Wood Headboard, Cork, Book, Paint, T-Strap Gate Hinges, Tacks, Clips, Refrigerator Door Handle, Vintage Press Photos, Vintage Magazine Clippings, Printed Brochure Clippings, Book Page, Vintage Postcard, Personal Document Clippings, and QR Code
57.5” x 34" x 8.5"
2024
A family photo of three rock pillows with two positioned in the back and one in the center front against a white backdrop. Each rock has unique colors, shapes and textures, with rounded and more pointed sides. The front rock is primarily blueish light gray, the back left is primarily dark gray, and the back right is primarily light pink with black. Speckled and swirling granite and galaxy-like textures originating from close up photos of rocks are printed on cotton fabric creating a realistic appearance similar to a large rock you might find on the shorelines to stave off erosion.
Bedrock
Cotton Fabric, Polyester Fiber Filling, and Buckwheat Hulls
Dimensions Variable
2024
One rock pillow sits on a white backdrop. It’s roughly just under two feet in diameter and made from different shapes sewn together. It has realistic crevices and ever so slightly visible seams. This rock is primarily dark gray but is intricately speckled in every shade from white to black. Echo’s arm reaches out from the right of the frame to touch the rock.
Bedrock
Cotton Fabric, Polyester Fiber Filling, and Buckwheat Hulls
Dimensions Variable
2024
A black velvet lap pad sits on a white background. It’s rectangular, an inch and a half thick, and a twisted cord trim wraps around its edges. In the center of the lap pad, in small red machine embroidery, it reads “NO REGRETS” in all caps. If you look closely you can see the fuzz of the underside of the lap pad which is a very soft black knit fabric.
Lap Pad (no regrets)
Weighted Insert, Reused Fabrics, Cord Trim, and Embroidery Thread
22” x 10.5” x 1.5”
2024
A hand out of focus pulls open the bag to reveal various items nestled together in the fuzzy red lining of the sensory bag. Most items are also pink and red like the bag. All the visible items are described in the caption below.
Sensory Bag (pink and red) (detail)
Reused Fabrics, Embroidery Thread, Anal Hook, Ear Defenders, Sun Glasses, Handheld Fan, Communication Pins, Hand Sanitizer, Painted Quilted Maple Wood, Painted Geode, Dried Lavender and Rose, Rose Quartz, Testosterone Vial, and Various Stim Toys
34.5” x 12” x 9”
2024
A close up shows the red machine embroidery on the delicate pink sheer fabric of the sensory bag. It reads “SENSORY BAG” in all caps and the embroidery matches the bag’s fuzzy red lining. Sunlight shines onto the bag from the left.
Sensory Bag (pink and red) (detail)
Reused Fabrics, Embroidery Thread, Anal Hook, Ear Defenders, Sun Glasses, Handheld Fan, Communication Pins, Hand Sanitizer, Painted Quilted Maple Wood, Painted Geode, Dried Lavender and Rose, Rose Quartz, Testosterone Vial, and Various Stim Toys
34.5” x 12” x 9”
2024
A bed frame is installed in the corner of a gallery with white walls. The floor is painted "OSHA Safety Green", and the bed frame is painted in the same color. On top of it is a memory foam mattress topper covered in emerald green sherpa fleece. A second identical mattress topper is placed on the floor to the left of the bed frame. The front end of the bed frame has three storage cubbies. Each has a basket filled with dried leaves. The middle basket looks like a watermelon. A bed rail is attached to the front end of the bedframe to the right side close to the wall. On top of the bed is an ipad connected to headphones and playing a garden scene. It's propped up on a small pillow-like stand covered in the same sherpa fleece.
Crash Pad (OSHA Safety Green)
Bed Frame, Mattress Toppers, Sherpa Fleece, Paint, Bed Rail, Baskets, the Artist’s Mother’s Dried Leaves, and Video on iPad
106” x 80” x 34”
2024
A video still shows a lush green backyard garden thriving in between the backs of apartment buildings, white horizontal panels to the left and metal railing and balconies to the right. A caption with a black outline around white text in the middle of the image reads “vibrant slowness”. The garden is tall and meandering but clearly cared for. Small paths lead into the green on both sides of the garden and sunlight shines on the shady garden from above.
Robin's Garden (video still)
Video
6 minutes 33 seconds
2024
A person cropped at their chest wearing a brown plaid button up shirt and jeans sits on a green bench on a green floor against white brick wall. They are using a lap pad and there is a second lap pad on their right folded on the bench. Both lap pads are made of fleece, with a printed photograph on one side and the other side is a light sand color with hand embroidered text in black embroidery floss. The lap pad in the person’s lap is printed with an image of a close up of the artist’s thigh as they are stacking a pile of small rocks on their leg on the beach. The lap pad next to them is folded with the embroidered side showing. It is a quote by Mel Baggs and the URL link is embroidered under hir name.
Lap Pad (rocks turn into sand in the ocean) (left), Lap Pad (disconnection is an illusion) (right)
Polar Fleece, Embroidery Floss, Polyester Batting, Zipper and Part of echo’s Weighted Blanket
2024
The lap pad is a vertical rectangle and a couple inches thick. This side of the lap pad is a soft fleece printed with a photograph of a close up of the artist’s thigh as they are stacking a pile of small rocks on their leg on the beach. Their hand is picking up rocks to the right, and the rocks on their thigh are a variety of sizes and colors piled onto each other and extending down their thigh. There is one clam shell on a larger rock. If you look closely you can make out a tattoo of a bed.
Lap Pad (rocks turn into sand in the ocean) (front)
Polar Fleece, Embroidery Floss, Polyester Batting, Zipper and Part of echo’s Weighted Blanket
25.75” x 18.75 x 1.5”
2024
This side of the lap pad is a light sand soft fleece. The lap pad is a vertical rectangle and a couple inches thick. A quote is hand embroidered with black embroidery floss. The quote is broken into one shorter and one longer paragraph, and the words “mountain. And” are squeezed in between text. Mel Baggs’ name is embroidered larger at the bottom and underneath is the URL to the source of the quote. The quote is also in the caption below.
Lap Pad (rocks turn into sand in the ocean) (back)
Polar Fleece, Embroidery Floss, Polyester Batting, Zipper and Part of echo’s Weighted Blanket
25.75” x 18.75 x 1.5”
2024
The lap pad is a vertical rectangle and a couple inches thick. This side of the lap pad is a soft fleece printed with a photograph of two mushrooms connected at their base pulled out of the earth, and lying among a brown crunchy pile of leaves and twigs and sticks of various sizes. The mushrooms are small with white stems and speckled brown caps.
Lap Pad (disconnection is an illusion) (front)
Polar Fleece, Embroidery Floss, Polyester Batting, Zipper and Part of echo’s Weighted Blanket
24” x 19” x 1.5”
2024
This side of the lap pad is a light sand color soft fleece. The lap pad is a vertical rectangle and a couple inches thick. A quote is hand embroidered with black embroidery floss. Each sentence of two is separated by a break. Mel Baggs’ name is embroidered larger at the bottom and underneath is the URL to the source of the quote. The quote is also in the caption below.
Lap Pad (disconnection is an illusion) (back)
Polar Fleece, Embroidery Floss, Polyester Batting, Zipper and Part of echo’s Weighted Blanket
24” x 19” x 1.5”
2024
A dark green wire basket, with a metal vine of leaves climbing up both sides of the rounded handle, holds a few dozen small pieces of bumpy textured burl wood The metal leaves on the basket have faded white edges. The basket has a wire pattern that looks like hearts wrapping around it. The burl wood pieces are beige tan and brown with patches of spikes that are small enough to be a good stim when squeezed. The piece sits on a white ledge and from behind the ledge a person cropped at their chest grabs a piece of burl wood in their hand. They are wearing a brown plaid button up shirt and they hold a black cane in the other hand. A green exhibition is behind them.
Sensory Basket (burls)
Metal Basket and Pieces of Maple Burl Wood
10” x 10” x 13”
2024
A dark green wire basket, with a metal vine of leaves climbing up both sides of the rounded handle, holds a few dozen small pieces of bumpy textured burl wood. The metal leaves on the basket have faded white edges. The basket has a wire pattern that looks like hearts wrapping around it. The burl wood pieces are beige, tan and brown with patches of spikes that are small enough to be a good stim when squeezed.
Sensory Basket (burls)
Metal Basket and Pieces of Maple Burl Wood
10” x 10” x 13”
2024
A light skinned hand with a forearm tattooed with an abstract curvy form reaches out from the right of the image to grab a bag hung on a white wall. The bag is a large saggy tote bag made of fuzzy dark green fabric and you can see a hint of the shiny gold lining. On the front the words “sensory bag” are embroidered in gold. The bag is hung by two large utility hooks. The bottom of the hooks are painted in green and the top part that is flush against the wall is painted gold.
Sensory Bag (green and gold)
Plush and Satin Polyester Fabrics, Painted Utility Hooks, Ear Defenders, Sun Glasses, Hand Sanitizer, Rocks, Chamomile, and Various Stim Toys
20” x 8” x 36”
2024
A light skinned hand on the right of the image opens the sensory bag showing its contents and shimmery gold satin lining. Huddled together are various sizes of rocks, stretchy stim toys in mesh green and yellow bags, green and gold acupressure rings, an open gold tin with chamomile herbs, black ear defenders, a bottle of alcohol-free hand sanitizer, 2 green slug stim toys, metal loop stim toys, black sunglasses, and a small fleece pillow printed with an image of a rock pile.
Sensory Bag (green and gold) (detail)
Plush and Satin Polyester Fabrics, Painted Utility Hooks, Ear Defenders, Sun Glasses, Hand Sanitizer, Rocks, Chamomile, and Various Stim Toys
20” x 8” x 36”
2024
A green bench is sits on a green floor, and a rolling metal tray is placed in front of it with its shaft also painted in the same cool toned green. On the bench is a large lumpy fleece pillow that is printed with an image of a large pile of small rocks. To the left of the bench on the wall is a pair of headphones. The rolling tray is filled with dirt and holds a transcript of a poem, To My Friend Who is Hurting by Mel Baggs, read out loud through the headphones and placed on a clear stand which is placed in dirt. In the dirt are also rocks, blue marbles and a bottle of hand sanitizer.
Rocks for Mel (Autispeak)
Fleece, Polyester Filling, Glass Mircobeads, Bench, Rolling Metal Tray, Paint, Dirt, Blue Marbles, Rocks, Hand Sanitizer, an Audio Recording of the Artist Reading Mel Baggs’ Poem “To My Friend Who Is Hurting” and a Printed Transcript on an Acrylic Stand
Dimensions Variable
2024
A close up shot of a piece of a maple burl mounted onto a white wall. It’s curvy and bumpy and organic shaped, and longer horizontally. It's light brown with a few swirls of warmer brown of the remainder of the bark left on it. It's the cap of a burl with it's bark removed, and bumps smoothly sanded to invite touch.
effleurage (detail)
Maple Burl Wood and Hardware
Dimensions Variable
2024
A close up shot of a slice of a maple burl against a white wall. It’s curvy and bumpy and organic shaped. It's grayish light brown but dark brown in it's grooves. It's the cap of a burl with the bark removed which leaves it covered in small spikes that have been sanded down into countless bumps to invite touch. There’s a little hole in the middle of it almost like a view finder.
effleurage (detail)
Maple Burl Wood and Hardware
Dimensions Variable
2024
The artist's forearm, hairy, light skinned and tattooed with an abstract curving form, reaches out from the right edge of the image to cup the bottom of a piece of burl wood with their palm. The burl wood is a warm light brown, is covered in little bumps all over, and is spotlit against a white wall. The wood is bodily, appearing as if it has wide hips and short arms.
effleurage (detail)
Maple Burl Wood and Hardware
Dimensions Variable
2024
A wide shot of a long white wall and green floor. Spotlights above shine onto 8 pieces of burl wood mounted on the wall. The leftmost piece is placed in the corner, and another larger piece of piece burl is placed flat on the floor to the right of the burl wood on the wall. All of the burls are lumpy, bumpy, uniquely shaped, and intended to be touched.
effleurage
Maple Burl Wood and Hardware
Dimensions Variable
2024
A black flag hangs on a flag pole from an off-white color building on the right of the image. In large white text the flag reads RESPIRO with the the word split into three rows beginning with RES, then PI, and then RO. Below is the sidewalk and a blue car under a green tree. Above is a clear blue sky intersected by power lines.
RESPIRO
Vinyl on flag installed on public sidewalk
47 1/4" x 27 9/16"
2023
A black flag hangs on a flag pole above the entrance of an off-white color building. In large white text the flag reads RESPIRO with the the word split into three rows beginning with RES, then PI, and then RO. The shadow of trees and the flag are cast onto the building.
RESPIRO
Vinyl on flag installed on public sidewalk
47 1/4" x 27 9/16"
2023
An ergonomic kneeling chair rests on a wood floor. The armature is painted gold and it has two rectangular platforms with brown fuzzy upholstery to sit on and rest your knees so you sit in a more active position. The upholstery is fully covered with a pattern of small embroidered sunflowers in rows.
Sunflower
Ergonomic Kneeling Chair, Embroidery Floss and Paint
32” x 19” x 20.5”
2023
A close up shot of a corner of an ergonomic kneeling chair resting on a wood floor. The armature is painted gold and it has two rectangular platforms with brown fuzzy upholstery to sit on and rest your knees so you sit in a more active position. The upholstery is fully covered with a pattern of small embroidered sunflowers in rows. The close up shows the shininess of the gold and brown embroidery thread and how the brown center of the flower, made up of French knots, pops up giving the whole piece a delicately bumpy texture.
Sunflower (detail)
Ergonomic Kneeling Chair, Embroidery Floss and Paint
32” x 19” x 20.5”
2023
An antique coffee grinder is mounted on a white wall. It’s dark brown, covered in rust and has a rounded body with flanges protruding from the sides with matching rust color screws. A curved crank with a wood handle extends from the center of the coffee grinder. Closer look shows ornate details and the words “Arcade Crystal”. A glass jar about the same size as the body of the grinder is attached upside down to the top of the grinder. Inside are dark gray ashes with bits of debris including small pieces of scorched rolling paper.
Circadia
Antique Coffee Grinder, Glass Jar, and Cannabis Ashes
12” x 6.5” x 9”
2023
A photograph shows a nude light skinned person with wispy body hair lying on white bed sheets. Sunlight shines across their body. Shot from directly above, their navel is directly in the center of the square dimensions and their waist is horizontal in the image like a landscape. Their arms are raised out of the frame, and they are cropped from just below their neck to their thighs. On the left of the image their flat chest shows top surgery scars and on the right side a round burl wood cap covers their crotch. Four pieces of textured and at times spiky burl wood seem to protrude from underneath the person by the sides of their chest and hips and a piece by their hip creates ripples in the sheets. A closer look reveals stretch marks on their thigh and a small tattoo above their hip read T4T
Burlwood
Digital C-Print
30" x 30”
2023
A portable massage chair with dark brown upholstery sits on a concrete floor in front of a white wall. Its metal structure is painted gold. Coffee beans have been glued in a row around each seam of the chair, and from every few beans a long gold thread hangs down with coffee beans glued all along it like beads on a necklace. Some coffee bean strands hover just above the upholstery or the ground, while some trail across the floor radiating in all directions outwards from the chair.
ACCRESCENCE
Coffee Beans, Portable Massage Chair, Thread and Paint
42” x 46” x 63”
2023
A close up of the middle of the chair's adjustable structure shows the coffee bean strands hovering above the upholstered legs of the chair and also shows how the beans are glued together in pairs on the gold threads.
ACCRESCENCE
Coffee Beans, Portable Massage Chair, Thread and Paint
43.5” x 63” x 45”
2023
A memory foam mattress topper lies flat on a grey concrete floor. On top of the memory foam is a thin clear plastic office chair mat with a lip which would fit underneath a desk. The foam has been cut to match the dimensions of the chair mat. Sunlight shines from the left across the chair mat and illuminates the ventilation holes, the small tears in the foam, along with the sweat stains which have turned the surface of the foam from the light blue color visible along the edges to a dull yellow green color.
Reflecting Pool
Used Memory Foam Mattress Topper and Office Chair Mat
60” x 46” x 3”
2022
A memory foam mattress topper lies flat on a dark gray floor. On top of the memory foam is a thin clear plastic office chair mat with a lip. The image shows a close up cropped view of the lip which is a rectangular shape protruding from one edge of the mat and is intended to fit under a desk. The foam has been cut to match the dimensions of the chair mat. The foam contains ventilation holes and the sweat stains which have turned the surface of the foam from the light blue color to a dull yellow green color.
Reflecting Pool (detail)
Used Memory Foam Mattress Topper and Office Chair Mat
60” x 46” x 3”
2022
On a black wall, two vertical monitors, about a foot apart, show the identical scene of a tabletop of various herbs and plants with captions in Spanish and English on both monitors. In front of the screens is a reddish pink bench with three round cushions in a similar color. A small white pillow sits on the center cushion with embroidered text also in a similar reddish pink that says “hold me" and "puedes tocarme”.
Arranged with Care
2 Channel Video, Herbs, Airplane Pillowcase, and the Color of Horchata Lojana
Dimensions Variable
2022
A combined video still of the same image of herbs on a table from both monitors. A detailed image description in the caption below.
Arranged with Care (video still)
2 Channel Video, Herbs, Airplane Pillowcase, and the Color of Horchata Lojana
Dimensions Variable
2022
A wooden cable reel, which looks like an oversized spool, sits horizontally on it's side on a concrete floor in front of a white wall. The cylindrical middle of the cable reel is fully covered by layers of coffee beans, which have been glued together in pairs on a continuous red thread like beads on a necklace. The cropped view hides part of the right end of the cable reel and focuses on the strand of coffee beans trailing from the work onto the ground in front it.
EXTRAHERE
Coffee Beans, Thread, and Cable Reel
20" x 16" x 16"
2021
A wooden cable reel, which looks like an oversized spool, sits horizontally on it's side on a concrete floor in front of a white wall. The cylindrical middle of the cable reel is fully covered by layers of coffee beans, which have been glued together in pairs on a continuous red thread like beads on a necklace.
EXTRAHERE
Coffee Beans, Thread and Cable Reel
20" x 16" x 16"
2021
A close up of the center of a wooden cable reel, laying horizontally, is fully covered by layers of countless coffee beans, which have been glued together in pairs on a continuous red thread like beads on a necklace.
EXTRAHERE (detail)
Coffee Beans, Thread and Cable Reel
20" x 16" x 16"
2021
An off-white pillowcase has been split open revealing a doubling of stains from where a head might rest. It’s hung high and horizontally on a white wall, the fabric dips slightly in the middle. Cascading from the fabric are numerous strands of handspun golden thread hanging down almost touching the wood floor. Short locks of straight dark brown hair are knotted all along each golden strand. They twist and turn, dancing despite stillness.
Regalos
Used Pillowcase, Handspun Thread, Hair
94" x 46"
2020
Zoomed into a section of several of the golden threads, numerous short locks of dark brown hair are knotted all along each of the threads. They twist and turn, dancing in space.
Regalos (detail)
Used Pillowcase, Handspun Thread, Hair
94" x 46"
2020
On a grey floor, against a white wall is a black bed frame shot at a 3/4th angle. The bed frame has built-in storage cubbies, 6 are visible. Inside of each cubby are various objects and ephemera, all intentionally placed, sculptures within the sculpture. Some of the objects that are visible include books (such as Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary), rocks, a jar of salve, and the fuzzy surface of a heating pad. In the place of a bed is industrial black diamond plate rubber flooring cut precisely to the dimensions of the bed frame and laid flat across the surface. The diamond plate creates a textured patterned surface.
At Work (Grounding Tactics)
Diamond Plate Rubber Flooring, Bed frame, Books, Stim Toys, Rocks, Wood, Candle, Hourglass, Tarot Cards, Heating Pad, Memory Foam, and Various Objects
77" x 56" x 14"
2020
This is a close up shot of At Work (Grounding Tactics). A detailed image description is in the caption below.
At Work (Grounding Tactics) (detail)
Diamond Plate Rubber Flooring, Bed frame, Books, Stim Toys, Rocks, Wood, Candle, Hourglass, Tarot Cards, Heating Pad, Memory Foam, and Various Objects
77" x 56" x 14"
2020
This is a close up shot of At Work (Grounding Tactics). A detailed image description is in the caption below.
At Work (Grounding Tactics) (detail)
Diamond Plate Rubber Flooring, Bed frame, Books, Stim Toys, Rocks, Wood, Candle, Hourglass, Tarot Cards, Heating Pad, Memory Foam, and Various Objects
77" x 56" x 14"
2020
A top-less light skinned person, cropped from their neck to their belly button, leans against a beige couch in front of a white wall. Their right hand is positioned with their thumb, index and middle finger up and their ring and pinky finger down. This is a sign of blessing and also known as the "hand of benediction". In their left hand is a textured piece of wood which appears similar to an anatomical heart with a large valve and also references a religious symbol, “the sacred heart “. The wood bears a deep scar which is mimicked in the faint scars across the person’s chest and in the way the fabric is nailed to the frame of the couch.
Chiron
Digital C-Print
Dimensions Variable
2020
A figure rests on the ground in an open field. We see him from behind tall grass. He faces away from us and towards green trees, bushes, and a mountain in the distance with several houses at its base. A power line runs across the field. The sky is bright with white clouds.
El Dios Acostado (video still)
Video
10 minutes 52 seconds
2020
A grey-scale photograph. Black diamond plate rubber flooring covers a bed. Behind the bed are blank walls except for a one light switch at the right edge of the frame. On top of the rubber covered surface is a figure hidden underneath bedding with a visible stain. The silhouette of the figure is abstracted by the draping fabric. The form rises upwards, reaching out touching the wall, with fabric trailing behind. The weight of the figure sinks the rubber into the bed causing waves in the flooring.
At Work (Rise) no.2
Digital C-Print
Dimensions Variable
2020
A sweat stained pillowcase hangs on a white wall. The fabric dips in the middle creating V shaped folds. It has been split open and appears as a continuous sheet of fabric. In the center of the fabric is small text stitched in black thread. It reads: (first line) Pl3ase be d.i.s.c.r.e.e.t (second line) c@refu11y dis.gui.sing (third line) @ny m3dicat!on w0rdz
ISO:
Used Pillowcase, Thread and Found Text
36.75” x 30”
2020
A close of up white sweat stained pillowcase. In the center of the fabric is text stitched in black thread. It reads: (first line) Pl3ase be d.i.s.c.r.e.e.t (second line) c@refu11y dis.gui.sing (third line) @ny m3dicat!on w0rdz
ISO: (detail)
Used Pillowcase, Thread and Found Text
36.75” x 30”
2020
A square throw pillow sits upright on a white shelf against a gallery wall seen from a 3/4ths view. The pillow is off-white with marks from use. Wrapped around the entirety of the seams are unraveled and pleated joint filters sewn into the pillow. They are a range of shades, white, tan and different browns, and resemble a decorative ruffle.
Offering
Used Joint Filters and Pillow
21" x 20" x 5.5"
2020
A square throw pillow lies upright against a white background. The pillow is off-white with marks from use. Wrapped around the entirety of the seams are unraveled and pleated joint filters sewn into the pillow. They are a range of shades, white, tan and different browns, and resemble a decorative ruffle.
Offering
Used Joint Filters and Pillow
21" x 20" x 5.5"
2020
A close up of the bottom right corner of an off-white square throw pillow without a pillow case lies against a white background. Sewn into the seams of the pillow are unraveled and pleated joint filters. They are a range of shades, white, tan and different browns, and resemble a decorative ruffle. The filters along the corner create a fan shape.
Offering (detail)
Used Joint Filters and Pillow
21" x 20" x 5.5"
2020
A cluster of pillowcases, stained from use, sits vertically huddled together in a corner on a gray floor to the back left of the exhibition space. They reach upwards and lean against gray walls surrounded by other artworks; colorful 2D works and in the front a sculpture that mimics the pointed Washington Monument. All of the pillowcases are filled with medical supplies which tugs the fabric and causes them to bulge. Their contents cannot be seen but their discolored fabric creates a range of white, beige and tan shades.
Pillow Fight
Used Pillowcases and Used Medical Supplies
Dimensions Variable
10 pillowcases, stained from use, sit vertically huddled together, overlapped and lined up on a gray floor in a corner against a white wall, all reaching upwards. The pillowcases are different shades of white, beige, and cream. One pillowcase, intended for a body pillow, reaches the highest. They are all filled with used medical supplies which tugs the fabric and causes them to wrinkle and bulge like a belly. Other than hints of various shapes, their contents cannot be seen. To the left of the huddle is a short transparent pedestal. On top is one more white pillowcase. This one is not attached to the wall because it is intended to be touched.
Pillow Fight
Used Pillowcases and Used Medical Supplies
Dimensions Variable
Eight pillowcases, stained from use, sit vertically huddled together on a wood floor in a corner by a column to the left of the space. They lean against the white museum walls reaching upwards. One pillowcase, intended for a body pillow, reaches the highest. They are all filled with used medical supplies which tugs the fabric and causes them to bulge like a belly. Other than hints of various shapes, their contents cannot be seen. To the right the hallway leads to other gallery spaces and installations.
Pillow Fight
Used Pillowcases and Used Medical Supplies
Dimensions Variable
Eight pillowcases, stained from use, sit vertically huddled together on a wood floor in a corner by a column. They lean against the white museum walls reaching upwards. One pillowcase, intended for a body pillow, reaches the highest. They are all filled with used medical supplies which tugs the fabric and causes them to bulge like a belly. Other than hints of various shapes, their contents cannot be seen.
Pillow Fight
Used Pillowcases and Used Medical Supplies
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Four pillowcases, stained from use, sit vertically huddled together in a corner, on a grey tile floor. They reach upwards and lean against purple walls with a white trim at the bottom. One pillowcase is the size of a long body pillow. They are filled with medical supplies which tugs the fabric and causes them to bulge. Other than hints of colors and shapes, their contents cannot be seen.
Pillow Fight
Used Pillowcases and Used Medical Supplies
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At Work (In Protest and in Care) lies on a dark gray museum floor and is shot straight on and centered in the image. The used memory foam mattress topper is covered by a white fabric cover and placed underneath black diamond plate rubber flooring which has been cut to fit the mattress topper. The shine of the rubber illuminates it's subtle waves.
At Work (In Protest and in Care)
Used Memory Foam Mattress Topper and Diamond Plate Rubber Flooring
75" x 54" x 2"
2018
Resting in the middle of a wooden floor and in front of a white museum wall, a mattress topper with a white fabric cover can be seen from underneath black diamond plate rubber flooring which has been cut to fit the dimensions of the mattress topper. Light shines on the textured rubber surface. The yellow foam of the mattress topper peaks out the from a tear in the white cover and a small tag extends outwards from the fabric.
At Work (In Protest and in Care)
Used Memory Foam Mattress Topper and Diamond Plate Rubber Flooring
75" x 54" x 2"
2018
On a grey floor, yellow memory foam peaks through a tear in the seam of a white fabric mattress topper cover. The edges are frayed. Black diamond plate rubber flooring lies flat on top of the fabric covered foam.
At Work (In Protest and In Care) (detail)
Used Memory Foam Mattress Topper and Diamond Plate Rubber Flooring
75" x 54" x 2"
2018
A grey-scale photograph. Black diamond plated rubber flooring lies on top of a bed, The bed is horizontal in the frame, and no bed frame can be seen. On the left of the image, the covered bed bulges where pillows are usually placed. It is against a bedroom wall with only a light switch, and is in between two doors, the left door is white and the right one is dark.
At Work (Rest) no.1
Digital C-Print
Dimensions Variable
2019
A grey-scale photograph. Black diamond plated rubber flooring lies on top of a bed, The bed is horizontal in the frame, and no bed frame can be seen. It is against a bedroom wall with only a light switch, and is in between two doors. The left door is white and the right one is dark and mostly cut off in the frame. A nude body lies on top of the flooring covered bed, one arm falling over the edge of the bed. They have dark hair and face away towards the wall. A small tattoo of a triangle is visible on their ribs.
At Work (Rest) no.2
Digital C-Print
Dimensions Variable
2019
A grey-scale photograph. Black diamond plate rubber flooring lies on top of a bed. The crop of the frame cuts off the bottom and ends of the bed turning it into an ambiguous shiny textured surface. On top lies a pillow and the background only contains a light switch.
At Work (Rest) no.3
Digital C-Print
Dimensions Variable
2019
Two glass show globes sit next to each other on a clear Plexiglas shelf in front of a white wall. They are filled with a range of medical ephemera such as injection needles, testosterone bottles, pill bottles, pills, and wrappers. The show globes have a flared base, a rounded body, and golden lids/stoppers.
Perfect Lovers
Antique Glass Show Globes and Medical Ephemera
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Two glass jars sit side by side on a shelf draped with medical gowns. The jars contain an array of medical ephemera including used needles and prescription bottles. The piece is installed on a white wall. Coming in like a dream from the upper left at an angle, two rays of sunlight beam down the two jars and create shadows on the wall.
Perfect Lovers
Glass Jars and Medical Ephemera
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Two hair clips sit next to each other on a rounded ornate shelf with chipped white paint. The shiny metal can be seen from behind the objects that adorn the end of the clip. Gauze feathers out from underneath white pill bottle caps. On top of the caps is an assemblage of herbs with reds, greens and browns and among them are two white pills on each clip.
Dolores
Gauze, Ecuadorian Horchata Herbs, Pill Bottle Caps, Lexapro, and Metal Hair Clips
4” x 2.5” x 1.5” each
2018
Two hair clips sit next to each other on a rounded ornate shelf with chipped white paint. The shiny metal can be seen from behind the objects that adorn the end of the clip. Gauze feathers out from underneath white pill bottle caps. On top of the caps is an assemblage of herbs with reds, greens and browns and among them are two white pills on each clip.
Dolores
Gauze, Ecuadorian Horchata Herbs, Pill Bottle Caps, Lexapro, and Metal Hair Clips
4” x 2.5” x 1.5” each
2018
Strips of black shiny material wrap across two silver metal rods which extend outwards from a white wall and are anchored with square flanges. The piece is installed in a corner and the twist of the material creates a bow tie shape, with the middle of the form being the thinnest. The form shifts depending on the perspective.
Bond
Bondage Tape and Steel
30" x 18" x 14"
2018
Strips of black shiny material wrap across two silver metal rods which extend outwards from a white wall and are anchored with square flanges. The piece is installed in a corner and the twist of the material creates a bow tie shape. The form shifts depending on the perspective.
Bond
Bondage Tape and Steel
30" x 18" x 14"
2018
Two pillowcases are hung vertically on a white wall both white with pale red stains, the left has injection needles (with caps on) stuck through the bottom half of the fabric and the right has short strands of black yarn speckling the pillowcase. The bottoms of the pillowcases bulge from the memory foam filling.
Pillow Talk
Stained Pillowcases, Yarn, Memory Foam, Used Injection Needles and Syringes
Dimensions Variable
2017
Two pillowcases sit in a corner on a wood floor against a white wall. Both are white with pale red stains, the left has injection needles (with caps) stuck through the bottom half of the fabric and the right has short strands of black yarn speckling the pillowcase. The pillowcases reach up along the walls and their bottoms bulge from their memory foam filling, touching each other just slightly.
Pillow Talk
Stained Pillowcases, Yarn, Memory Foam, Used Injection Needles and Syringes
Dimensions Variable
2017