FILM & TIME-BASED WORK
My time-based work begins in painting and expands through animation, documentary testimony, projection, sound, and duration.
Across hand-painted films, projected installations, and moving-image portraits, I explore how memory is shaped by trauma, inheritance, family story, and the images we create in order to understand the past. Some works begin with thousands of individually painted frames brought into motion. Others begin with a person speaking: a remembered childhood, a displacement, an adoption, a survival story, a fragment of history held inside a single life.
Together, these works ask how memory moves through the body, through families, and across generations, and how painting can give form to experiences that resist a fixed or complete account.
Featured Projects
Installation and Projected Work
Memory Without Walls
Projected Painting Installation
Created as a projected moving-image installation, Memory Without Walls extends painting into architectural space and duration. Images unfold across the installation as fragments of recollection, asking how memory can be experienced not only as narrative, but as atmosphere, scale, movement, and immersion.
Format: Single-channel video installation / projected painting installation
Duration: 7 minutes
Year: 2022/ongoing
Presented at: Berlin Art Week
Available for: Exhibition and institutional presentation
Time Away from Time
Projected Painting Installation
Single-channel moving-painting video
Time Away from Time is a 7-minute meditation on reverie, time, and the architecture of thought. Composed of moving paintings that shift one into another, the work unfolds without narration, inviting the viewer into a space of dreams, memory, and imagination.
Rooted in an early memory of being told to stop daydreaming, the piece reclaims reverie as a vital mode of perception and creation. The moving images become portals: a form of travel through memory and possibility, and an invitation for viewers to enter that same suspended state of wonder.
Format: Single-channel video / hand-painted moving image
Duration: 7 minutes
Year: 2022
First presented at: Art Basel Miami
Available for: Exhibition and institutional presentation
Portraits of Memory
Moving-Image Portraits and Painted Testimonies
In this ongoing series, I work with individuals whose lives have been shaped by rupture, displacement, survival, adoption, and inherited history. Through recorded testimony, painting, and moving image, each portrait explores the relationship between what happened, what is remembered, and what can be represented.
Rather than treating an interview as documentation alone, I use painting and duration to create a visual space around the speaker’s memories: a space for silence, uncertainty, image, and emotional residue. The works ask how a private story becomes part of a larger cultural memory, and what it means to witness another person’s past through art.
Meghan’s World
Moving-Image Portrait and Painted Testimony
Format: Single-channel video installation with original paintings
Duration:
Year: ongoing
Available for: Exhibition and institutional presentation
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Irving and Francines’s World
Moving-Image Portrait and Painted Testimony
Format: Single-channel video installation with original paintings
Duration:
Year: ongoing
Available for: Exhibition and institutional presentation
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Karen’s World
Moving-Image Portrait and Painted Testimony
Format: Single-channel video installation with original paintings
Duration:
Year: ongoing
Available for: Exhibition and institutional presentation
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Rebekah’s World
Moving-Image Portrait and Painted Testimony
Format: Single-channel video installation with original paintings
Duration:
Year: ongoing
Available for: Exhibition and institutional presentation
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