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2025  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

Hungry Man, or an Attempt to Fill My Dad’s Shoes
on a Holiday, 2024
(Made with Gracie Moon) RELIC
WIFE BEATER & SLACKS

PERFORMANCE
MARCH 11TH, 2024

Thinking about the act of doomscrolling as a modern outlet for loneliness and boredom, a comparison can be drawn to the earlier act of channel-surfing. Constantly flicking through TV channels every few seconds for long periods of time results in both time passing and little to no entertainment or information being absorbed. As a kid I would sit with my dad (who identifies as a workaholic) on his days off at home while he channel-surfed. I once asked him why he did that for hours on end, and he responded by saying to me “what else am I going to do?”.

Replicating the setting where my father spends his time when he’s unable to go to work, I dressed up in his daily at-home attire and trapped myself in a space with nothing but my dad’s favorite food, a microwave, and a television which was set to change channels every 10 seconds. In this space, I was not allowed to communicate with anybody or leave the room, and my only choices for activities were to sit, eat, and watch TV. I did this for roughly 5 and a half hours before getting bored and leaving the room.