CLANCY

This project was developed and created in conjunction with students from William Penn Charter School's Social Justice Club, Black Student's Union, and Art Club in Philadelphia, PA. It is currently searching for a permanent home.

In 2016, fifteen students under the age of eighteen lost their lives in conflicts with law enforcement. This installation is a reminder of the fragility of life and the sadness of unfulfilled dreams. It is a reminder of the power of weapons and the conflicts that they may, often fatally, cause and settle. However, these desks are also platform for discourse and change, and are meant to be exhibited in conjunction with programming around teenage mental health, police deescalation tactics, inner-city violence, and the BLM movement. The dark desks are also meant to usher in the light of knowledge, encouraging us all to remain students.  

There’s no room to breath. It’s hot on the block.  

Temperatures rise. Volumes rise. Pressures rise.

Mediums melt. Bodies melt. Relationships melt.

We don’t poke corpses because it’s WRONG; we don’t poke corpses because we’re afraid we might LIKE it.

I poke and prod with a light touch and a heavy line. The canvases the corpses I never poked, never touched, never said goodbye to, never thanked, never considered, and never warned. Corpses I never knew and never will. Pressure, as defined by space and force, runs the show. Pressure, as defined by a heavy hand, runs the show. Pressure, as defined by a heavy heart, runs the show.

"We are all unreliable narrators, not just in the way we tell our stories to others, but how we tell them to ourselves." -- Deb Caletti

Mitote refers to the cacophony of voices in your head.  They are all talking but none of them seem to listen. Mitote is driven by false beliefs, self importance, fear, and layers of denial and justification. *

"It's massive." - Bradley Cooper

"You need to get that checked."  - Sienna Miller

Nutscapes is a collaborative conceptual project and meme that employs masculine vulnerability and humor to explore mankind's role in the natural world through the subversive lens of social-media and modern technologies. With participants from around the world questioning what a true selfie is, the narrative direction of Nutscapes is up to those who join in.

The clash between the ego, the sub-conscious, and the true-self manifested in one-thousand-and-one self portraits drawn with eyes closed. 

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"Please assume, then, for the sake of argument, that there is in our souls a block of wax, in one case larger, in another smaller, in one case the wax is purer, in another more impure and harder, in some cases softer. Let us, then, say that this is the gift of Memory . . . and that whenever we wish to remember anything we see or hear or think of in our own minds, we hold this wax under the perceptions and thoughts and imprint them upon it, and whatever is imprinted we remember and know as long as its image lasts, but whatever is rubbed out or cannot be imprinted we forget and do not know." -- Socrates