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Built By Popular Demand, 2024. Exhibition view and installation at Temple Contemporary, located at Tyler School of Art + Architecture, Temple University. 

Built by Popular Demand, 2024. Latex print on vinyl, spray painted die-cut corrugated plastic, garden stakes, glue, zip ties, Home Depot and Lowes buckets, synthetic and dying plants, concrete, colored paint, screen printed foam board, screen printed wood, quilted moving blankets with adhesive vinyl, bleached fabric, blown glass vessels, and lighting systems. 15ft by 10ft by 13ft (tall)

Built By Popular Demand, 2024. Exhibition view, alternate side.

Expanding the Network, 2024. Screen print on pink insulation foam, found map, blown glass, flameworked borosilicate glass, saw horses, dead palm frond.
96” by 35” by 29”

Changing Time, 2024. Screen print on drafting mylar, synthetic and dying palm frond, staples. 36” by 36”.

Hot Spots, 2024. Woodblock print, found map, flameworked borosilicate glass, burn marks, bakery crate. 25” by 21” by 10”.

Field Notes (I), 2024. Screen print on drafting mylar. 21.5” by 31”.

Field Notes (II), 2024. Screen print on drafting mylar. 21.5” by 31”.

Stratifying Strategy, 2024. Inkjet print mounted to found cardboard, screen print, tape. 80” by 38” by 0.5”.

Built by Popular Demand is an exhibition exploring the palm tree as a symbol of placemaking and utopia. Informed by my research on beach tourism and experience as a project manager in a signage shop, I assert the unstable relationship between the visual and the productive. Working collaboratively with sculpture, print, and craft studies, I make connections between the built-environment and sites of cultural production, revealing undertones of the political in the process.

Built by Popular Demand premiered at Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art + Architecture in Philadelphia.