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The Practice Ground
Red Tennis Court Clay, 4’x6’ on wood panel.
Green Tennis Court Clay, 4’x6’ on wood panel.
Video, 1 hour, content: red oil paint on tennis balls hit against a 10 foot wall.
"The Practice Ground" is a performance and artifact; drawing from my experience as a tennis pro, the work transforms contradictions I have experienced throughout my life into a sculptural meditation.
The tennis clay carries material memory for me, recalling childhood practice sessions in the heat, the meditative repetition of drills, and the love of tennis and it’s philosophical connections to life. The clay that was once the surface of competition and training, becomes a landscape of contemplation. The clay texture holds both activity versus stillness or clarity versus uncertainty.
It is a contemplative landscape; not a fixed territory, but a space defined by movement, competition and repetition.
Mapping Entropy
An exhibition took place in Iceland at Korpúlfsstaðir in 2021.
Utilizing a rope, I tracked my location and trail while walking in Iceland. We display life’s movement, and inherently it's chaos, unpredictability, and entropy by existing. Through carrying a rope and repeating these patterns of mapping, we also display the behaviors that we submit to illogically and the randomness of our day and night. After using a straight line of rope, we may come across that the rope becomes entangled, circular, patterned, and goes nowhere, yet is a paradox as it becomes part of a greater landscape. This could show us that our movements have ramifications, are disorderly even if perceived as organized, and we should not forget the intangible.
This project resulted in altered landscapes and documentation.
Reflections on Leisure: The American Coastal Sublime
Photographs - 4’ on the longest side.
This series explores how landscapes near the ocean on the east coast of America transcend geography to become theaters of leisure.
