Practicing Patience in Your Art Practice

This summer I created an immersive installation on Governors Island as a 4heads PORTAL House resident that proved to be a seismic shift in my practice.

Apropos of the type of work I’ve been creating since 2018, the work I INTENDED to create on Governors Island was a collection of 1:8 scale dioramas. I had planned to construct several separate pieces each populated by a community of 11” tall bat/human hybrids that would explore connections between viruses (foreign bodies), community, and colonization.

Below is a concept sketch of some initial ideas of how I might activate the space I was given. I included this sketch in my application package.

What actually happened was SO MUCH MORE.

First, a little background…