Painful Arc II (Shoulder-High) II, June 2023 – May 2024, the High Line Park at Little West 12th Street
I interviewed the staff of the High Line Park and photographed supplies circulated within the complex ecosystems of the park. Inscriptions carved into the surfaces of the artwork include supply labels and handwritten notes. Historically archways celebrate nobles and leaders, my archway is a monument to uncelebrated, global labor, interconnected work that make city parks possible.
Bust of Canons Series, The Protector, 2023. Photo credits, Daniel Terna
Goddess Durga, a 14th century Nepalese antiquity from the Metropolitan Musuem of Art in New York is armed with weapons lent by male gods to battle a demon called Mahisha. I interpret this mythology by 3-D printing and body scanning myself as a contemporary form. Made of surveillance and desire economy technology Mahisha becomes female adversity.