If the world ends tomorrow I will find you, I promise
Endless fragments of rusted metal are integrated into the Mojave desert landscape, remnants of extractive industries and western expansion. In my practice I collect and transform pieces of trash from sites of destruction to explore queer renewal as a strategy towards healing in deep time. In this body of work, I melted tin and cast it into metamorphic objects that revitalize the rusted fragments. When pouring the molten metal, notes on paper that contain my hopes and fears about belonging in time become submerged inside the new forms.
I explore material shifts as a queered relationship to nonlinear time, where an entropic melting gathers in unrecognized spaces to flirt with duration and deep change. By embodying archaeological unknowability, these works reclaim their own subjectivity. The renewal of discarded materials relates to experiences of queer abandonment and the subsequently-earned intuition to seek love and transformation in ruin.
