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I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in Holyoke, MA. My research looks at improvisational movement and technologies, including analogue photography and electronic music, for looping and layering in relation to liminality, memory, and the gray area. In discussing color, gray is a color without color – any shade that falls somewhere on the binarized spectrum between black and white is called gray. I work with overlapping, reused, and duplicated materials and mediums in singular performance as well as over time and seemingly separate projects. I seek to make public the spaces between the materials (photography, production, sound, words, movement), the multiple, sometimes conflicting ways they exist in space and how we engage with them across maker, performer, and witness lines. Through extensive repetition – materials repeating themselves, replicating each other, and overlapping over and over again – each material breaths, repetitively taking from and contributing to the work.
My formal training is as a contemporary dancer and choreographer — as such the body, often my own body, is a central figure in the work. My process is also informed by living and working outside of any major city — the places that often go unrecognized and misunderstood. And by multiple trips across and through the rural US; by seeing landscapes pass by and change through a car window — too quickly to truly know a place but slowly enough to know them a little.