Synthetic Hair, Wire, Glue - 14ft

Artist Statement: A Mess We Make reflects large-world anxiety- the overwhelming nature of being alive on this crowded planet. We are growing and expanding and producing yet wasting and destroying and collapsing… more than we ever have before. How am I supposed to be 22 years old in 2024? There is an overstimulation that comes with pondering the direction that my generation is careening toward. It’s debilitating. I am forced to desensitize myself to thoughts of casually hurtling towards “doomsday,” yet the build-up of this stress is painful too. My process is generative and spontaneous– I’m building something from nothing, using wire to form organic structures that expand and spill over. Tying and twisting and wrapping the synthetic hair around the organic wire structures provides me a tactile way to process some of this large and looming anxiety. Using real hair would have been too natural to actually represent our existence as humans– plastic has become the most natural waste product of our species at this time. How much longer can we keep going like this, producing and destroying and discarding the way we do? It’s beautiful, but it’s going to congeal into a mess eventually. It’s getting ugly.