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2026  2 yr drwng
            ain’t-merica ii
            swan song, etc...
            a trickster in sweatpants

2025  tony
            the high five project
            homesick blues #3
            sauce-merica

2024  double-double
            with teeth
            the love of my life
            the ultimate asshole
            thank you, come again
            lofano/marino
            the bob dylan project
            good year, bad year
            from rags to riches... 
            and rags again
            get yourself a lawyer
            & a gun
            hungry man
            anthem
            johanna’s not here
            untitled
            pure evil

2023  meanwhile at the antecedent
            of impending doom
            white light/white heat
            liquid ecstasy/dirty dreams
            for wile e.
            wild, west

2022  made in china, revisited
            hail to the king
            tea for masochists

2021   american pie
            not your country

2020  the saint, the villain
            & the antihero
            stolen bike

2019   she was trying to convince
            them that the overwhelming
            awe of the supernatural
            would override the fear of death
            but they wouldn’t agree
            american reformation

Homesick Blues #3, 2025
(Made with Petar Zekovic)  MATERIALS
SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO &
DIALOGUE TEXT

PERFORMANCE
JULY 22ND, 2025

In 1999, my best friend Petar and I met in our hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. After 7 or 8 years, my family uprooted our life in the Midwest and we moved around until settling in Los Angeles, California in 2013. Despite not living in the same city, Petar & I remained in contact, and stayed best friends.

In 2020, Petar ended up living briefly in Chicago, Illinois, a city we both dreamed of moving to as kids, but then eventually moved to California in 2024. I stayed in California for 10 years until I got accepted into grad school, and coincidentally moved to Chicago the same year Petar moved to California.

In the summer of 2025, Petar and I met up in our hometown for the first time in years. We aimlessly drove around our hometown, both ending up driving around Chicago, recording our thoughts on places of emotional significance to us. In both our drives, we ended up talking about our mixed emotions about our dead-end hometown, our relationship with our mothers, deaths in our family, and about the impact we’ve both had on each other’s lives. The following work is a recording of the specific kind of relationship I’ve had with my best friend growing up in a small town in the Midwest.