process #1

Installation shown nov 2025, in the Queer Processes and Ecologies show at the OCADU graduate gallery. The show was curated by Renata Critton-Papp to present works-in-progress, or works-about-progress.

Stripping off the interface of a project, you see the codes and notes and dips inside.

Artist Statement

This installation takes the internal documents of my masters thesis and collages them into a chaotic timeline, pegged with illustrations from my research paper and the development of this art piece. Red strings implying connections between ideas and work sessions, but dip in the empty spaces, occasionally coiling on the floor amongst discarded ideas.

My process involves a lot of highs and lows, starts and stops. I keep cycling through hypergraphic manic bouts where I am generating thousands of words and drawings trying to find something, and then sinking into burnout in between those flurries. A lot of this note taking isn't just capturing my research, it's capturing my moods and my fears in the process. It can feel as though I am writing around something, attempting to write myself through something. This sketching and outlining becomes invisible, discarded for newer iterations, or code nestled inside of more audience-friendly interfaces like bones inside bodies. But it is the aspect of the art that I spend the most time with, and it is what I see whenever I look at whatever the smaller, finished package becomes.

When I am burning, my beautiful friends are there to make sure I am taking care of myself. When I am burnt out, my beautiful friends are there to remind me that it is ok to rest.

materials: note taking software, sketchbook pages, abandoned github repositories, pen, tape, pins, string.