My practice incorporates sculpture, objects, installation, time-based performance, and handmade spectacles that memorialize obsessional lives. My work celebrates the stories of unconventional people whose private manias become public fodder for tabloids and reality television. Combining their biographical material with autobiography becomes a means to channel my own personal struggles into something comprehensible. (more)
Model Killer:
Giant Crimes + Tiny Cover-Ups
a morbid comedy centered on a disgruntled dollhouse maker turned investigator who builds dioramas of unsolved murders, only for it to be revealed she’s the perpetrator
an installation in which thousands of decaying rag dolls testify to the need for love at the heart of the obsessional life
a solo puppetry and object performance centered on a woman, who in her search for true love develops intimate relationships with inanimate objects
an installation-performance in which one of America’s most beloved dolls must go under the knife to dissect what is just beneath the surface of our cultural preoccupation with physical perfection
a solo cabaret style musical in which aging socialite grows fur and claws to recapture the attention of her philandering game hunter husband
an ensemble actor-puppetry performance in which a woman who believes she’s the daughter of a famous ice cream mogul must come to terms with her troubled past
