Distill: to extract the essence of something into a concentrated form

Distilled is a single minute of my unfiltered social media feed and account details, into an object, drawing, and photograph (left to right). One minute of time spent in social feed is often an experience unremembered, unrecorded, and highly personal. In order to distill a digital interface into a physical product, essential information is stripped and concentrated. In this action, the saturation of information in social media consumption is exposed. Blended and separated from the original imagery and context of an algorithm’s feed, the distortion between the digital and physical world displays the residue of my personal interests.

Object: Acrylic engraved with my account details and distillation parameters

Drawing: Every legible word from a one minute scroll, sorted alphabetically and hand drawn

Photograph: Long exposure of the one minute scroll

Elk antlers thrown and photographed airborne suggesting an absent body, taken at sites of tree stumps in my childhood neighborhood on Shanahan Ridge in Boulder, CO, chosen based on recency of cutting, proximity to my house, and significance in my memory of the neighborhood. Shanahan documents the gradual change to an environment that intersects naturally and artificially planted vegetation, urban and wildlife boundaries, and personal memory and growth as I’ve noticed a decline in deer and elk populations in my neighborhood while I outgrow it.

Photographs, physical pieces, and ink prints of all surfaces touched over the hundred-sixty-five step course to make avocado toast in my apartment. The photographs are placed in their subject matter’s approximate floor plan layout, and red dots indicate the number of times the subject was touched during the making of the avocado toast

“Ambidextrous” is a lenticular combination of two headshot self portraits that are completed when viewed from the extreme right and left angles. The title refers to my lifelong confusion over whether I can consider myself ambidextrous for drawing with my left hand while throwing with my right. It is also a reflection to how objects change representation as one ages; the type of pencils themselves becoming an icon for schooling as I’ve graduated to using drawing pencils, and as my practice itself has shifted through phases of drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Wooden walking cane with circular punctures ranging in size and depth creating a gradient effect. Drilled holes increase in size until the cane’s shaft is broken

Rabbit anatomy reconstructed through a human anthropological lens, comparing material relationships with cultural connotations

Broken Out is a self portrait through the interface of my wear to a 2019 Nike Tailwind ‘79 Pumice shoe (right foot). Retailing for $90, this pair of shoes was used relentlessly from their purchase in March 2020 to their approximate February 2022 retirement, lasting as a capsule, rather than shoe, to represent a period of time I consider among the most important in my life.