Introduction to the work
I am interested in the language, structures, objects, and rituals through which people are evaluated, corrected, scored, categorized, or made socially legible.
Across the work, authority often presents itself as neutral, therapeutic, administrative, or affirming. The projects explore the emotional consequences of inhabiting these systems — and the ways their logic becomes absorbed into everyday life and our perception of ourselves.
This site functions as an extension of my work. It explores how systems classify, evaluate, and shape human identity.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Under Continuous Review
In this work, I pair AI-generated portraits with a short fragment of human narrative (“the human bit”) and system-generated evaluations.
The portraits do not depict real individuals. They function as stand-ins for the kinds of people institutions routinely evaluate, classify, and judge.
The evaluations operate mostly independently of the narratives provided for the subject; who someone is, or how they define themselves, is often only partially relevant to the system’s assessment of their suitability, performance, or value. At times, the system chooses to ignore “the human bit” altogether.
I designed and coded the system, but once activated, it runs without my intervention.
Under Continuous Review builds as an archive of records. It accumulates judgments while exposing uneven levels of empathy, recognition, and institutional tolerance.
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Procedural Dispossession
Pulled from the artist’s personal collection of verbatim emails and corporate communiqués gathered over a 30+ year career, the administrative language of Procedural Dispossession is presented as independent text fragments.
Removed from their original context, the fragments reveal how authority is reinforced through tone, repetition, and implied compliance.
The work looks at how institutional language gradually replaces personal ways of interacting with administrative identity, reducing the individual to a manageable record.
Organizational Cartography
Role Clarification
Merit Framing
Temporal Foreclosure
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Credibility Index
This work imagines what might happen if institutions were to quantify and score human credibility. The artist provides the system with two forms of information:
Basic demographics gathered prior to interaction (gender, age, education, compensation structure, and disability information, if applicable);
A random set of behaviors and/or characteristics observed during the interaction; e.g., carried an expensive designer handbag, wore an unconventional outfit, arrived late, appeared overly confident, etc.
Scores shift through interaction, revealing how credibility is continually recalibrated and recalculated.
The work examines how institutional systems distribute trust unevenly while presenting those judgments as neutral procedure. It also asks the viewer to consider the subjectivity of these evaluations, since one person’s observations and scoring — positive or negative — will often differ significantly from another’s.
OBJECTS OF MEASUREMENT
The objects, interfaces, and everyday artifacts through which bodies and behaviors are measured, evaluated, corrected, or classified.
Series I: The Fantasy of Objectivity
An examination of the visual language of measurement.
Series II: Taxonomy of Imagined Lives
Human beings are relentless meaning-making machines. Give us a bag and we'll invent a life.
