TO HOLD THE THING THAT SHIFTS
Ghosts of Belltown, 2023

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A temporary three-dimensional forced perspective installation created at the former Bergman Luggage store in downtown Seattle. Words are hand-painted onto a pile of doors and detritus gutted from the second floor of the building. Seen from other pers
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DRESS REHEARSALS FOR THE FUTURE
Museum of Northwest Art | 2023

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Dress Rehearsals For The Future Created for the exhibit “Surge” at Museum of Northwest Art, this piece was made in collaboration with climate change scientist Guillaume Mauger. The cartographic rendering merges past and future, referencing both a 18
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SEMIOTICS OF A BOX
King County Recology Artist in Residence | 2023

King County Recology Artist in Residence, 2023 | A collection of text-based works created by culling boxes from a materials sorting facility. Not quite paintings or poems, they are descendants of poetry concrete, with words scraped, stripped, rebui
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INDECENT & INDELICATE
Text-based drawings | 2015 - 2023

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RISE FROM THE ASHES
Amazon Artist in Residence | 2023

Exploring processes of writing poetry in collaboration with AI platforms while an artist in residence at Amazon. Text was generated using an AI text generation application (since then taken offline) to experiment with writing in collaboration with ma
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T SHIRT GIRLS
Text-to-clothes

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Figures
Watercolors & drawings

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FRANCES SAYS
Writings and sayings of Frances Farmer retraced

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VIDEOS
2011 - 2023

Adaptation of Rudolf Schwarzkogler's script "Wedding Action," originally performed and documented in a flat in Vienna on February 6, 1965. Video filmed in Manitach’s flat in Seattle, at 1535 Bellevue Ave on April 20, 2012.

YOU HAD ME AT BELLEVUE
Bellevue Arts Museum | 2018

You Had Me At Bellevue | 2018 Featured artwork installed at the entrance of Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA. On view 2018-2021. The piece is one from the “You Had Me At” series, which serve as poetic love letters and psychogeographical portraits

ART WEDDING
Museum of Museums | 2023

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CURATION
2010 - 2022

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A STRANGE DAYDREAM DEPRIVED OF ALL THICKNESS
Mad Homes | 2019

"a strange daydream, deprived of all thickness" lifts a phrase found in Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space in which Bachelard considers the quality of different spaces (rooms) in a house to furnish an archive for memory and safe haven for dreams. Th
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PILLOW TALK
2016 - 2023

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YOU HAD ME AT: SALTON SEA
Bombay Beach, California | 2019

You Had Me At Bombay Beach Wheatpaste, 2019 | Part of the ongoing placement of psychogeographic poems responding to specific places, cities, and sites. This installation amongst the Bombay Beach ruins, California.
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