Being enchanted with this world involves being with all of this world. Being in love requires us to accept grief. Feeling joy requires us to know pain. Watching the spring bloom requires us to know the tight squeeze of the winter bud. One cannot exist without the other. 

light leaves this prism utilizes the structure of the shed as the “prism” and the light that filters in to explore how the feeling of rigidity can transform into uncatchable vastness. This installation passes words fraught with boxy rigidness (“I”,“woman”, “sex”, “pleasure”) through the wisdom of the prism.The hand sewn nets act as microscopic lenses-suspending trash, collage and evidence of process, and rooting them down into a large ceramic woman who has herself been shattered into pieces- revealing multiplicity. What filters in as singular or rigid, filters out into endless multitudes, revealing watery edges, and blurring the lines between self and everything at once. This show explores stretching the erotic imagination as the root for constructing a larger sense of connection to this world. It’s an incantation for a more vivid aliveness that spills out from rigid individualism and through play explores the messiness and ever-evolving nature of what it means to be human, of the both/and nature of existence. 

light leaves this prism is an incantational installation exploring the interconnection of all things and the odd joy-pain within that. Rainbow light leaves the prism in part because of the tight squeeze of the prismatic structure, but that squeeze is exactly what breaks the seemingly singular light into its radiant multitudes.