Paracletos
Intersect Art Center, St. Louis, MO, 2025
Parakletos transforms industrial food-grade aluminum foil into sculptural form, exploring the material's dual associations with food service labor and sacred preparation. Exhibited in We Are What at Intesect Art Center with Last Supper (2011), where the absence of Christ’s hands redirects focus from gesture to presence, the installation examines how systems of provision embody spiritual practice. The foil's industrial origins - preparation, preservation, disposal - mirror liturgical cycles of offering and consumption.
Psalm 27
My Light and My Salvation
Georgetown College, 2024
“The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom should I fear?
The Lord is the defense of my life;
Whom should I dread?.”
Psalm 72:1 (NASB)
The title of the exhibition Psalm 27: My Light and My Salvation posed a unique opportunity to explore questions around art and faith in the new context of Georgetown College. What does it mean to call God ‘light and salvation?’ How does religious belief effect a person’s psychology? What do I put my trust in?
The Body of Christ.
Calvin University, 2022
“Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.” I Corinthians 12:27 (NASB)
The title of the exhibition Body of Christ posed a unique opportunity to explore questions specific to Christianity within the familiar context of Calvin University. How do I think about this metaphor two thousand years after it was coined? How can anyone conceive of the entirety of believers in Jesus? What does it mean to be part of this body?
