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2025  (the high five proj.)
            ain’t-merica
            sauce-merica

2024  double-double
            made with love
            with teeth
            “perfect” “people”
            thank you, come again!
            love minus lingo
            in honor of eric cartman
            lofano / marino
            the bob dylan project
            good year, bad year
            from rags to riches...
            get yourself a lawyer...
            hungry man...
            anthem            
            johanna’s not here
            (thomas series)
            pure evil

2023  meanwhile...
            white light / white heat
            liquid ecstasy...
            for wile e.
            family dinner
            wild, west

2022  made in china
            hail to the king
            tea for masochists

2021   american pie
            not your country

2020  the saint, the villain...
            stolen bike                   

2019   she was trying...
            why don’t you just...
            american reformation
            sign language


Untitled / The High Five Project, 2025
(Made with Rex Delafkaran) MATERIALS
INKJET PRINTS, VIDEOS, 
WRITING & ROAD TRIP SOUVENIRS

PERFORMANCE
MAY 27TH - 31ST, 2025

In the summer of 2025, my friend, Rex and I decided to drive from Chicago, Illinois to Southern California to visit both of our families. Using the Great American Road Trip as a vehicle for dérive-art, we wandered somewhat-aimlessly in the Southwest for four days sightseeing, collecting souvenirs, and writing before arriving to Los Angeles. Every time we stopped the car (for gas, food, or sleep), we performed and documented the same act of high fiving each other. 

The following work is a collaborative collection that documents a specific kind of temporary intimacy, as well as a universal act of friendship.


Recordings:



Souvenirs & Notes:

Rex spotted matching cellphone themed lollipops when I took her to Wally’s in Pontiac, IL
Marlboro Golds purchased from St. Louis, MO (the cheapest state for cigarettes)
By the time we got to Springfield, MO, we realized neither of us had a lighter
After waking up in OKC, we stumbled upon the American Banjo Museum, which randomly happened to be a block away from our hotel
When we got to Roswell, NM, neither of us realized how much the town would be covered in UFO themed kitsch.
It was always a goal of mine to see the giant pistachio sculpture in Alamogordo, NM, and Rex is the only friend I have who was equally as interested in seeing a massive nut in the middle of a desert.
In Quartzsite, AZ, right next to California’s state line, there was an old man selling rock related things. He sold us 4 bracelets, 2 of which we gave as gifts.
The old man also sold rocks, and gave each of us a chunk of Obsidian.
When we got to Rex’s mom’s house, Rex gave me a CD of her mom’s band to listen to on the drive to my mom’s house. Rusty Vail is a master of honky tonk.