Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely
performance, dimensions variable, 2022–ongoing
A pigment print of the 228 incident, divided and mounted on six 40 × 40 inch wood panels. In each live performance, the artist scrubs away one panel of the image with sandpaper, rendering the historical event as an irresolute afterimage. Performed at ground level in both open and enclosed spaces, this piece has taken place three times in summer 2024 and will continue in summer 2025. The repetitive gesture began as a daily ritual, in which the artist burned small prints of the same image in 2022. Over time, this evolved into the act of scrubbing — an action that borrows from the physical labor of women kneeling to clean floors in the home.
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, performance with sandpaper, physical labor, on six 40 × 40 inch pigment prints on wood panel; 21 minutes, 2024
Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, Country within Country and Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, 2024 (installation view)
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, excerpt of a performance with sandpaper and physical labor on pigment prints, 10 × 13 feet, 2023 (studio view)
Untitled, ash and acrylic paint on pigment print, 7.75 × 11.25 inches, 2022–2023