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Statement

Found objects and images possessing inherent value as subject, based on their relationships to place, function, and commonality. Fabricated associations that lend specific weight to alternative interpretations of context, of meaning and of relationship. Echoing experiences of games, television, and other distractions used to numb the sharpness of global issues, cultural disorder, and personal turmoil.

My collaborative project, PEACOCK, focuses on the creation of environs that involve the mechanics of self-presence; manifested through sensible forms of human experience. PEACOCK assembles situations of dialectical pluralism, merging real life and the mimesis of real life, transforming the audience into co-conspirator, their collective actions stimulating a reformulation of social experience.