Note on The Humors:

Ancient Greek philosophers wrote of four temperaments (or ‘humors’) that color all of creation: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. Urbanity is part of this creation, and also embodies versions of these dispositions. The Humors suggests urban behaviors and relationships, those of people and of the built environment itself.

2017, video, 3 minutes

Soft Plots presents a collage of Oak Street Beach, Chicago – a stretch of sand wedged between Lake Michigan and the city’s imposing skyscrapers. Different areas of the sandy beach host volleyball and frisbee tossing. Projectiles—and players—disappear only to pop up elsewhere. The quilt-like patchwork portrays a conception of urban living that is both group-oriented and discontinuous, with underlying conflicts and competitions. We live in big cities with overlapping communities and storied lives. Soft Plots is a metaphorical network of meaningful encounters and the richly-inhabited voids in between.

  • “Fragments” Screening (April 24, 2017), Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • Shifting Landscapes (Feb. 24—May 20, 2017), Form & Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Juror Award Winner

  • The Subject is Chicago (Feb. 11—April 9, 2017), Chicago Cultural Center, IL

2019; video; 3 minutes

Pale Patrol suggests an ambiguous scene in Oak Street Beach in the winter: a frozen stage with potential conflict and no resolution, only symbolic events. Is this public display a lack of will, an ambivalence on both sides, political enactment, or détente?

2016; video; 3 minutes

Green play is a joyful orchestration of one of the great meeting places in New York City—Central Park, a utopian playground and repository shared by locals and tourists alike. The spliced footage choreographs a single summer Sunday and encapsulates an optimism that is central to American life.

2016; video; 3 minutes 

Deep Ends suggests a tension between carefree buoyancy, vulnerability, and inherent risk. Water on the edge of an urban landscape invites crowds, and shot from a long distance, the scene strangely oscillates between leisure fun and the aftermath of a disaster.

  • In Their Element (Nov. 15, 2018—Feb. 10, 2019), Spartanburg Art Museum, SC