VISUAL ART
STYLING
CV
ARTIST STATEMENT
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS NOW
IS HAPPENING NOW
site-responsive installation at
Emerging Artists Collective, “After Dark” 2026
1 minute 15 second video
But why the pursuit when I've already figured it out?
The meaning of life is to love.
Situated in EAC's After Dark Runway afterparty was my site responsive installation based on this concept; a thought transcript relying only on word and pacing to weight the room. The attempt is to converse with the crowd of emerging artists, fashion designers, wannabe models, via an atmospheric, emotionally vulnerable experience in a space vulnerable to superficiality.
Installed in various parts of the room, I thought the video(s) would act as the elephant in the afterparty; a silent truth that would've resonated with almost all the attendees. What happened instead was a great irony - a work that cries out specifically to the people it wants attention, validation, connection from, was pushed around, snubbed, viewed by very few in a space where everyone is thinking of themselves.
I saw a model physically pick up one of my projections and put it to the side because it was in the way of her photo op. (Who doesnt want a great picture of themselves smoking?) This extension of myself that I thought would move my peers was instead an obstruction to be moved. Further, I had met this girl 6 months ago and she didn't recognise me at alll.
When prompted with vulnerability, there was no dialogue. I swirl in the pursuit, making sure I'm spit out on love's exit. Their pursuits were networking and a posed photo. The conversation was one-sided.
The installation, in a room DEDICATED to its existence, asks, "I don't feel worthy, and why do I have to? Why do I feel excluded?", was deemed unworthy and excluded.