FUSE
A sculptural exploration of movement embedded in earthen materials, set against a backdrop of urban decay. This project has become a meditation on feeling at odds with the city, thinking about how the land is haunted by what it used to be before being parceled, sold, and concretized into stillness.
Fuse began after being assigned to create a site-specific piece in a New York park space that was filled with trash. It has since been made into a durational performance as well as a film project. I am currently seeking opportunities to set the work as a durational sculptural installation in a museum setting.
Untitled (2025)
In sustained 100-degree heat in Commerce City, Colorado, two earthen bodies crack open, frantically making a return to sweltering rubbish-laden dirt piles, where their bodies offer sustenance for new polluted life.
Fun Fact: All the farm land and houses surrounding where we were shooting this film had been bought up by the state of Colorado in order to make space for factories. Fitting for the piece and its allusions to repeated cycles of colonization & settlement.
The creative team includes: Kaila Ablao, Deming Haines, Soren Kodak, and Max Sarkowsky.
Made thanks to Keith, who let us film on his property and borrow his skid steer.
Currently in Post-Production.
Fuse (2024)
On a cold, windy day in Harlem, NY, a garden comes to life as two clay beings make an escape from their planter, only to be frozen in decay by an omnipresent, threatening force.
Fun fact: This film project was an accident. We were supposed to be doing a durational 2 hour-long site-specific performance of ‘Fuse.’ Instead, we were met with a day of rain and pivoted to this.
The creative team includes: Kaila Ablao, Kit Bollag-Miller, Deming Haines, Soren Kodak, and Max Sarkowsky.
Made thanks to ‘M.A.D.E. in the Garden’ at Hope the Friendly Garden on the Hill.
Presented at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference in Los Angeles, CA 2024
Fuse (2022)
The original iteration of ‘Fuse.’ A glacially-paced 90-minute sculptural exploration of two bodies repeatedly molded together by a sculptor, until they are finally concretized into a haunting stillness, frozen at the sight of the city.
Fun Fact: This project began because we kept getting minor injuries from garbage in the park while trying to create movement for this site-specific piece. We decided to make our relationship to the garbage and city central to the work.
The creative team includes: Kaila Ablao, Deming Haines, and Soren Kodak.
Made thanks to the Current Showcase at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Presented at the Current Showcase in Brooklyn, NY 2022.