The artist's Suspended Beliefs series is on view at Gearbox Gallery in Oakland, CA from Nov. 20, 2020 through January 2, 2021. The works investigate the fallacy that one can suspend the trauma of their waking lives and seek refuge in their sleep—exploring the landscape where the waking life interacts with the unconscious. Highly personal, they deal with the layered and idiosyncratic nature of storytelling and memory—and their roles within family relationships. This ongoing series of visual poems uses using ink, collage, and an antique manual typewriter on paper. The typewritten texts are taken from the artist’s personal diaries and poems, while the collaged texts are from a variety of sources. The width of each work is determined by the typewriter’s maximum paper-width, then cut vertically at varying lengths—some works are comprised of multiple panels to represent how memory often behaves as fragmented vignettes. Each piece is suspended from the ceiling with unwound tape from audio music cassettes—resembling an oversized mobile—referencing the artist’s childhood reliance on listening to music in order to fall asleep. Read more about SuspendedBeliefs HERE.
