Ordinary and Absurd

My work investigates how revision in perspective can dramatically shift understanding of literal and political landscapes. Considering the limitations of looking, I challenge the reliability of a singular vision, especially one constructed from a patriarchal viewpoint. My work places objects of landscape – rocks – in contexts of illusion and ambiguity to reorient perception. Rocks are as unique as fingerprints and as ubiquitous as dirt. In the economy of chauvinism, women’s labor operates in a similar space – so omnipresent, expected, and undervalued it’s invisible. By arranging these reliable objects in surprising ways, I expose cracks and fissures in structures that seem incontrovertibly fixed.