BIA Memories

These works are a continued series surrounding identity, memory, and trauma.  While the works are referencing my family's past with the Boarding School System and attempt at cultural erasure at the hands of the US Government, they are a continued experiment with using artifact to create a quietly mournful, surrealist space. 

The HMS Majestic Theater 

A tiny toy theater I built to house an antique 1930's ocean liner model I found while out picking one day in Vermont.  The ship is a floating model, and was originally wired for electricity; I wanted to emulate the campiness and toy scale of the ship while giving it an appropriate frame. 

​The Derelict Dollhouses

Below is a slideshow of a series of dollhouses I made during my time as a teaching assistant at Dartmouth College.   As part of my year-long internship with the Studio Art Department, we were given studio space and a chance to display our works in the Hopkins Center Rotunda; my work finished with the sculpture seen in the slideshow below, titled "Environs."