FUN HOUSE: Slow Art for Fast Times, 2024

When the world speeds up beyond recognition, one response is to slow down — radically, stubbornly, with attention. Fun House is that response. Born from the need to make sense of a world that had become completely foreign, this body of work turns close observation of nature into an act of reconstruction.

Through India ink paintings and large-scale sculptures assembled from foraged materials — spirea shoots, stripped vines, sumac fronds — I build quiet instruments for looking: gathering rods, slow currencies, architectural forms that exist at the threshold between the built and the natural. Each piece sits at the edge where scientific observation meets something it cannot yet measure. Taken together, they map an interior landscape — not an escape from the world's noise, but a way back into it. It is only when you feel so small within nature's vastness that a realm beyond physical reality simply opens — and from there, the world looks different.