Works on Constructed Identity
Burren College of Art
Ballyvaughan, Ireland 2016

Ode to Ireland
Mixed Media on Canvas

The Mirror Stage
Live Performance, Residual Painting

By painting the projected self, I simultaneously disrupt and mirror my own externalized identity. In this way, the paint facilitates an investigation of the construction of self.

"The mirror stage is not the beginning of something, but the interruption – the loss, the lack, the division – which initiates the process that 'founds' the differentiated subject, and this depends not alone on the instantaneous formation of some internal cognitive ability, but on the dislocating rapture of the look from the place of the Other." Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, Peter Redman, Identity: A Reader

"...the very image which places the child divides its identity into two." Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, Peter Redman, Identity: A Reader

PBS News Hour
Live Performance, Residual Painting

I grew up watching the PBS NewsHour with my parents. I would sit right in front of the TV. They would sit farther back on the couch, listening or commenting. Sometimes they got mad at the newscasters. I usually didn't understand why.

How did I learn the world? Was it by tracing the TV over and over again?

How did you learn the world?

the only constant is change, and that means that i am always changing, too
Digital Photography, Paint, Thread