Constructed with the intention of creating a garden within a garden utilizing felt, wire, and tape to create snapdragon flowers to hang from the ceiling during the exhibition as a textural interactive piece visitors can walk through, look up at, or view the exhibition through.
Euphoria is a reference to the chemicals dopamine, oxytocin, norepinephrine, serotonin, and vasopressin that flood the brain when interacting with the presence of someone one enjoys. Composed of dried flower petals, charcoal, and essential oil. Euphoria speaks to the fragility of such relationships in relation to the fragility of the incense because of this fragileness both are to be treated with care.
My House Smells Like Peppers and Roses is part of a series consisting of installation, video, poetry, and performance that retool the domestic practices of bathing and cooking, while serving the apace as memory. These works are autobiographical and derive from the narratives of female exhaustion in the familial sphere.
Explores the absurdity in the financial transaction of a flower and its apparent transformation into the commodification as a sexual object. Juxtaposed between commercial items of romance and set upon a flimsy romanesque pillar the roses and various objects will be left to expire for the duration of the exhibition.
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