“Mass Produced Object” Project Proposal: To create medium scale wind-sock/kite in the shape of a Whale Shark. The purpose of this object is to act a metaphor for optimism in a video performance with a working title called “I see in you a thousand stars”. In this performance I am dragging the wind-sock through a bleak environment attempting to capture essences of “hope” within the air. Currently within my practice I have been interested in deep ecology, and one of its aspects is to anthropomorphize “more-than humans” as agents for empathy and connectedness. In this performance am borrowing the image of the Whale shark as a vehicle for change. This organism is a keystone species found in tropical waters and is important to carbon sequestration, through massive carbon storage through its mass and recycling nutrients for other marine life. Kites have a cultural significance in South East Asian cultures, as a symbol for celebration, freedom, and religious beliefs. They ar...
Black River Media Installation Audio & Video Sculpture Black River is a media installation exploring displacement and the longing for a deep connection towards a kind of homeland. At its center is an Inflatable Crocodile—a puppet trapped in an unending karaoke performance, forever singing a song about its life. Though it has no voice, its presence suggests an eternal loop of longing, echoing unheard stories of loss. The work humanizes this fictional creature, evoking empathy and prompting reflection on our own connections to land. It investigates shifting ecological baselines—the way in which each living generation perceives nature’s decline as their “normal.” As ecosystems collapse, what we consider natural keeps shifting, obscuring what we’ve lost. Within this narrative , the crocodile longs for its polluted homeland and to be with other mutated crocodiles. Dwelling in a post-climate apocalypse where remnants of human industries remain and pollution becoming our final lega...