Good Work: 2014-2015

“Good Work” is about objects and actions whose value isn’t readily apparent. The work isn’t always about making something that is readily understood as “good.” Something I feel genuinely excited by usually evokes a more specific word than “good”. Goodness is vague, dull and a little weak. The designation sets a thing apart and celebrates it, but perhaps consummates its completion and empties it out. This work is an effort to understand my perception of the work I do, the way it ought to be done, how those have been shaped by my class background and continue to shape my character.

**Three Chairs, 2014**
Variable dimensions
Mahogany plywood, oak, melamine, child’s chair, toilet seat, ratchet strap, water cooler, hardware, spackle, glue

**Tissue Box, 2014**
10"x5.5"x5.5"
MDF, spray paint, brass, hardware, lock, adhesive, tissue

**Olivewood Plinth, 2014**
36”x36”x45”
Inkjet print on MDF

**Box, 2014**
20.5” x 14” x 12”
Cardboard, packing tape, pine, masonite, plexiglass

**Work Glove, 2014**
8”x5”x3”
Cast Bronze, oil paint

**Found a Job (Employee Appreciation Gift), 2015**
3.5"x5"x8.5"
Maple, plywood, poplar, spray paint, latex paint, oil, oil pastel, glue, sticker, poly urethane

**Sleeper, 2015**
12"x 22"x 43.5"
Plaster, oil paint, wax, steel, wood-screw clamp, wood yo-yo

**Pinocchio’s Leg, 2015**
14"x 6.5"x 29.5"
Birch and birch plywood

Observation Devices: 2016-2019

Observation Devices is a project about Chicago police surveillance and public space. Observation Devices invokes the name of the Chicago Police Department’s surveillance cameras: called “Police Observation Devices”. These cameras are the infrastructure of Operation Virtual Shield, one of the largest public and private surveillance projects in the world.

Observation Devices is an expansion and critique of Operation Virtual Shield. Its intention is to de-center the images of the public generated by and for the Chicago Police Department. Chicago’s massive investment in surveillance infrastructure demonstrates the Chicago Police Department's belief that visual observation of public space has power. My work is an attempt to reclaim some of this power. I hope to demonstrate ways that observation can foster intimacy, connection, curiosity and a more complex understanding of the public and public space.

**Police Observation Device at Potomac and Washtenaw (3/4 scale), 2016**
6.5”x9”x10”
Cherry

**Potomac and Washtenaw (post), 2017-18**
6"x6"x7"
Manipulated 3D print (PLA) generated from 3D scan

**Police Observation Device at Potomac and Washtenaw, 2016-2018**
8"x12"x14"
Cast concrete on **Milk Crate Modules**
**Milk Crate Modules:**
13.5”x13.5”x11.5” individual stacking units
MDF, milk crates, spraypaint

**Police Observation Device at Potomac and Washtenaw, 2016-2018**
8"x12"x14"
Cast concrete

**Police Observation Device at Division and Washtenaw, 2018**
4.5”x4.5”x13.5”
Cherry, wire and woodglue on **Milk Crate Modules**
**Milk Crate Modules:**
13.5”x13.5”x11.5” individual stacking units
MDF, milk crates, spraypaint

**Police Observation Device at Division and Washtenaw, 2018**
4.5”x4.5”x13.5”
Cherry, wire and woodglue

**Police Observation Device at Spaulding and Evergreen, 2018**
3.5”x5”x16”
Cherry, wire, woodglue

**Police Observation Device at Potomac and Washtenaw, 2018**
3”x4”x11”
Cherry, wire, woodglue

We All Live Together: 2024-Present

We All Live Together is an emerging body of work that includes large-scale drawings and functional ceramics. In these works, I illustrate ambiguous mass-gatherings of what might be commuters, festival-goes, protestors, or evacuees. Each crowd contains a myriad of appearances, complicating the dynamic of shared experience through apparent differences. These works evoke the often unseen–but ever present and problematic–reality of human interconnectedness.

Sculpture Portfolio

Good Work: 2014-2015

Observation Devices: 2016-2019

We All Live Together: 2024-Present