Cannon: Or; Toward an Iconography of Meekness
Ceramic and India Ink, 86" x 20" x 14", 2012

Au Courant
Wood, paint, and tape, 38" x 4" x 8", 2012

As a representation of my larger interests, the work in my thesis exhibition, Marginalia, operates at several interfaces, namely that of labor, craft and ritual. The context for my work is often personal. In this way it is situated with the praxis of life. For me this has meant practices such as manual and skilled labor or academic study, which raises questions for me about my relationship with these practices as framed by my family history. By extension, it too raises questions about generational labor, what it might look like at the time of my writing here and how it is manifested in me as maker and as marginalia: the notes in the margin of a text. The notion of the work as being marginalia is specific to the way in which it calls upon or creates emblematic forms. My mediation is an act of note making in the margins of a known text, image, or object, which I hope viewers will find to be pointed reflections on the familiar.

All photos credited to the artist.