Reframing is a body of work that uses self-portraiture as a way to negotiate memory, anxiety, and the desire to not be forgotten. Moving between personal history and constructed image, the works use acts of framing and reframing to examine how identities, narratives, and legacies are produced over time.
Through a slippage between past and present, Reframing reflects on the instability of historical memory and how individuals try to shape how they might ultimately be remembered. The work treats self-representation not simply as documentation, but as a way to confront fears about disappearance, mortality, and obscurity while questioning how any legacy is constructed, preserved, and continually rewritten.
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My Father Winning Gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics (No Boycott Version)
Archival pigment print on coated polycotton canvas, stretched. In two parts - each: 36" x 48"
Archival pigment print on coated polycotton canvas, stretched. In two parts - each: 36" x 48"
Artist's Bibliography - Books, paper dust jackets, rubber stamp with wooden handle. Variable dimensions.
Light Refreshments To Be Served At All Future Museum Retrospectives.
Wood, plastic, paper, acrylic paint, and black pepper in glazed earthenware. 16" wide x 16" long x 14" tall.
Wood, plastic, paper, acrylic paint, and black pepper in glazed earthenware. 16" wide x 16" long x 14" tall.
Infiltrating the Kitchen Revolution - Single-channel video (color, stereo). Running time: 43:13.