Surveying commemoration
oil on canvas
20"x48"

Since the beginning of time, people have created monuments, fully aware that those monuments will outlive them. From East to West, these monuments have taken different shapes and been erected for varying purposes.


In this triptych, each vertical marker is a snapshot (or encapsulation) of a specific time period, while the sun’s setting on the unified horizon represents a consistent cycle of time passing. Monuments and memorials frame, manipulate, reconstruct, and disseminate public memory––mimicking a practice we all participate in on an individual scale. Countering these public sites of memory, or destroying them, can often become a way to counter grand narratives.


What if the future of commemoration is not permanent or fixed to the ground; something we can not physically visit. Instead it is a form of commemoration that is constantly shifting and crafting new histories within the spaces between stories.

(commission)
Oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on canvas
60"x40"
Columbus
oil on canvas
36"x36"
Lights
chalk pastel on matboard
40"x20"
Columbus
colored pencil on matboard
40"x22"
(commission)
acrylic and oil on canvas
24"x36"
Adaptation
oil on canvas
30"x30"
(commission)
acrylic and oil on canvas
40"x20"
Rokeby Venus study with CNC
acrylic, plaster, CNC
12"x8"
Short North Stroll
oil on canvas
42"x28"
UnConsumable
acrylic paint sheets, plaster, light

Installation in Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH

UnConsumable
acrylic paint sheets, plaster, light

Installation in Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH

UnConsumable
acrylic paint sheets, plaster, light

Installation in Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH

Untitled
oil on canvas
24"x36"
Reflection
oil on canvas
48"x36"