observations

Rome 2024

Photo by August Mazzara

An attempt to capture the feeling of being halfway between the observer and the observed.

This work consists of a handmade wooden window frame that has been stained with green and black pigments and sealed with acrylic medium.

The words painted in white are a collection of poems written on the walls of buildings in the Trastevere neighborhood.

The window is accompanied by two images and correlating original short stories.

Your Neighbor, Too.

Georgetown Steam Plant 2025

Deportation flights occur 800 yards from where this work was installed. Multiple times per week barred-window buses arrive at a nondescript building at Boeing Field next door to the Steam Plant.

Volunteers wave goodbye. People are chained at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and are loaded onto an ICE-contracted plane to be deported. Detained people are taken off the plane, and are put on buses for transfer to the privately-owned Northwest Detention Center. This process continues. The system continues.

Your neighbor is next.

siesta

Rome 2024

A guerrilla installation in Piazza Farnese

During 2024, Rome took a siesta (an extended afternoon rest taken daily, in true Italian fashion) to prepare for the 2025 Jubilee celebrations. Every fountain and building underwent restoration, temporarily hiding them from the public eye, frustrating tourists and art enjoyers alike.

article 1, section 8, clause 3

Seattle 2024

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States…

The Commerce Clause is the basis for a large portion of the constitutional debates that occur in the Supreme Court of the United States. Justices across time have had great impacts, both positive and negative, on the flow and regulation of commerce through many landmark cases and written opinions reviewing the constitutionality of Congressional legislation.

This work consists of a waving chicken wire frame, vintage postage stamps from my great-great-uncle’s collection, and portraits of Supreme Court Justices.

ceramics

'My (Im)Perfect Bowl', 6.5x6.5x3.5in, 2024

'Rometti's Plate', 10x10x1in, 2024, in Umbria, IT

'Collab' (set of two), 8.5x8.5x1in, 2024