Drawing series. Color pencil, oil pastel, and graphite on paper.

Site-specific performance created for Glass House ArtLifeLab’s 24 hour performance program, An Emptying, July 2024. Artist constructs her sculpture Hair Chair II from beginning to end over the course of two consecutive twelve hour periods.

Durational Performance created for A Labor Party, a performance show curated by Ellen Carpenter and Flora Wilds for Trestle Artspace, July 2023. Artist cuts the hair of willing participants while they sit in her sculpture Hair Chair I. Once the lock of hair is cut, the participant signs their name on a slip of paper and both lock of hair and name are displayed on a backdrop. Hair and names accumulate as the performance progresses.

Nine handmade handkerchiefs with hand-embroidered original phrases, glass beads, pearls.

36” x 72”

Phrases from top left corner to bottom right corner read:

I am a tightly bound spiral slowly unfurling

Inside

I am struggling to leave my apartment

Pleasure

My Home

Panic

In my worst dreams I scream until I ruin my life

Preordained Rage

This is a family Heirloom 

Extant chair covered in synthetic hair extensions

Drawing series. Color pencil, oil pastel, and graphite on paper.

Oil and oil stick on canvas

54” x 54”

Mixed media, artist’s own hair.

3” x 3”

Repurposed chair parts, satin fabric, rope, handmade doll.

30” x 17” x 14”