I am thankful that I was able to spend March 16-25 in Williamsburg, Virginia at the Muscarelle Museum of Art and the College of William & Mary as an artist in residence.

This residency ended with a celebratory unveiling reception and print signing Monday, March 24th. Thank you to David Brashear, Melissa Parris, Steve Prince and everyone at the Muscarelle Museum of Art for making this residency, installation, art-making, new connections, and development of many new friendships possible. Thanks to the team of students, museum staff, W&M faculty, and friends for their help and support. There were so many people involved and I am grateful for this opportunity and look forward to returning.

Return to a Point of No Return, 2025
Donated CD and DVD discs, aluminum, monofilament, cable ties, ratchet straps, and hardware.

Music devices and recording media visually recur in my artwork as metaphor for exploring fickle appetites. The CD is situated in a technological history of automated devices that read inscriptions and codes to reproduce experience. My studio practice is inspired by cyclical patterns, human ingenuity, wormholes in science fiction. Crafted to be desirable, her sculptures explore fickle appetites as values and desires change. As one’s favorite movie or song becomes less desirable and is replaced by another, this sculpture is made of past desires and is built as a loop with no beginning nor end with glimpses along the way as hidden systems and information structures that underlie everyday life surface.

THANK YOU to everyone
for hands-on help with the
sculptures and prints
Steve
Kevin
Rosalind
Eva
Quincy
Anastasia
Katie
Jacob
Laura
Marissa
Mika
Mattie
Zak
Gray
Sydney
Harris
Nancy

And thank you to museum security Kathy and Wallace for staying late a few nights to welcome some extra hours of 💿 time.

Thank you to Angela and the Colonial Gardens B&B for making sure I was well rested and breakfast energized.

Thank you to OU graduate studio assistants Maddie McHugh and Seph Trask and thank you to OU Research Council for a Faculty Investment Program grant support making it possible to afford their assistance in preparation for the residency!

Thank you to Stealth Industry in Dallas, TX for their support and expertise to create the aluminum structure components for this site-specific sculpture. These 3” fabricated L-angle 7.5 ft ovals are perfect and the reducing scale of the smaller ovals and rings created an excellent exoskeleton for the 💿💿💿

Thank you to W&M Sculpture faculty and staff for welcoming me to use their shop to prep the bespoke aluminum connectors to fit the space and for welcoming me to their classes and bringing their students to the museum.

Thank you to for W&M Printmaking Professor Brian Kreydatus for his help and expertise as we worked on a special edition of etching visual poems on player piano roll paper based on my drawings of Victrola horns pulled with his students.

A Point of No Return, 2025
Ink and Player Piano Roll

As my collection of Player Piano Rolls continues alongside my collection of CDs, I especially seek rolls that include karaoke-like sing-along text on the side. As I do not have a player piano and since many of the rolls I have are unplayable, I cannot hear the voice of these paper rolls that contain audible memory. This technological ancestor of the cassette and compact disc, the player piano was first invented in the mid-19th century as a pneumatic (air-powered) method for recording, reading, and playing music.

During this residency, thanks to Professor Brian Kreydatus, we created this etching based on my drawings of Victrola horns. Printed to corresponding text from a player piano roll from 1923 titled Sleep, the combination of the image of the horns with a figure-8 knot that is stuck without clarity how it got in such a knot and no visible path to become untied. We pulled a unique print edition of ten visual poems and I look forward to continuing to explore this new direction.

Residency and Installation - Williamsburg, Virginia