PART 1, 2022: A mixed-media installation I made in collaboration with Yves Al-Sharifi, Judy Chau, Chau Nguyen, and Dean Vukovic. I worked on the physical fabrication of the piece alongside Chau Nguyen in regards to creating the design, hanging papers, and installation setup. I also aided in the filming and documentation of this work. 

“my insides returning to our outside complexion” is a video art and text installation that explores gender expression in the online space in response to Milena Pafundi’s Toxica. As opposed to Toxica, which focuses on gender-based violence online, our piece intends to express how, while aware of the harmful capabilities the internet has and can provide, these spaces can be a source for gender euphoria of identities beyond the binary amidst the discourse around the validity of one’s gender and expression in current society. Through this, we created a form of expression in gender identity composed of its desires, inherent urges, and the explicit emotions that arise from experimenting with identity. Joy, guilt, fear, anger, and ambition are expressed through a relationship with implicit emotions and poetry and explicit expression through materials. In the physical representation of the “in-between” made through the contrast between tradition and modern materials, creating an alternate artwork through the two’s combination, the result is an exposition of experimentation in gender that is a performance in itself. 

PART 2, 2025: An extended version of the project created by me and Chau. This second iteration further explores materiality and movement in the presentation of the work through distortion and light. Drawing from Rosalind Krauss’ writing, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”, the installation can be viewed through a lens of challenging traditional distinctions between support and expanded objects, engaging with the “expanded field” of postmodern artwork. It uses a wall-mounted projector stand and a motor that turns the focus knob on a projector every minute using a customized gear. The hanging piece of paper is a poem spray-painted on using a laser-cut stencil.