- a curse to keep moving, a blessing to remain
- MisSpiriting
- NNNNNNNNNNNN
- Harm’s Way
- CampanX
- What Holds the Ground?
- The Promise of Growth
- The Mountain Couldn’t Objectify Me (Nor I It)
- Appliqué
- It Wasn’t Meant To Be
Info / CV
2024
Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Excerpt from the Introduction of my MA Thesis, “’He Was Really Tired of Being’: Ülo Kiple and Me”:
My subjectification, or who I have been allowed to be in Estonia comes in the wake of multiple, overlapping white supremacist national projects. The state of Estonia, Europe, and my birth country, the United States, are among them. In this environment, I have clung onto personal mythologies that are counter to the fractured forms of self I have been allotted here. These myths have served to isolate me from others, but also have reconnected me to my roots in a place far away from home and allowed me to dream of myself as free from the impositions of systems of normative regulation. Self-mythology is never something I can see directly, just as I can never look directly at myself. I can only experience it as reflected through my actions. In this way, self-mythology can be an artistic strategy for personal transformation in a fraught place.
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This exhibition is the culmination of my MA research on embodied graffiti histories, the 1980’s-era Estonian proto-graffiti writer Ülo Kiple, and the legacies of racial nationalism in Tallinn, Estonia.