Solo exhibition at Number 1 Main Road in Berlin, DE.
November 15 - December 8, 2024.

Desire, power, and time’s consequences are bound through language and illusion throughout ‘it could be a valentine’. The central video ‘taking you out at the knees’ shows an erotic power dynamic between the Cowboy and the Sky that is steeped in apologetic sentiment, longing, and greed. Their intimacy is a fickle process of access and denial; one in which imagination manufactures comedy or tragedy. This work utilizes the queer subtexts of early country music, a genre filled with melancholic pageantry. It builds a symbolic world from within to highlight the complications or contradictions of queer yearning. Pulling from Magritte’s interiors, Spaghetti Westerns, and trompe l’oeil painting, the blue theater is littered with leftovers of a romantic gesture. The actors of the affair renegotiate their proximity through repetition: trial and error. Rinse and repeat.
‘Sorry’ is a metronome marking the time that runs on.  
The ignition of a match, the petals of a rose, and the click of bootheels in the distance remind us the sentiment is fleeting. Surrealism and exaggerated scales blur the truth of the memory. What was once sought for now lies as a discarded monument dedicated to what’s lost in translation. It is not about despair and it is not exclusively about desire - rather the ways longing impacts queer identity and how loneliness can incite its’ own eroticism. 

A film exploring the relationship between the sky, the rose, and the cowboy for the exchange of power, desire, care, and greed.

score produced by Charlie Apple which samples Brena Lee’s 1960 ‘I’m Sorry’.