Fraught Imaginaries (2022-2025)
Supply 🌀 Demand
Modular cinder block installation constructed from materials sourced through the prison-industrial supply chain
Dimensions variable
2025
Supply & Demand was presented in my solo exhibition, Fraught Imaginaries at Transmitter Gallery in Brooklyn. Built in the shape of a walk-through spiral, the installation reconfigures the architectures of the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in Claverack, NY, while drawing from the visual lexicon of privatized, third-party commissary suppliers—companies that provide food, clothing, hygiene items, and other essentials to prisons through catalog and online ordering systems across the United States.
The spiral form is intentional: it mirrors the circular, self-perpetuating logic of the prison-industrial complex, where profit and punishment reinforce one another in a loop that is difficult to escape. At the same time, the spiral gestures toward an opposing symbolic tradition—the spiral as a form of renewal, evolution, and movement toward an emergent center. As viewers walk through the structure, they physically enact the tension between these two forces: the labyrinth of incarceration and the possibility of transformation.
Constructed from materials sourced directly from the prison supply chain, the installation transforms carceral commodities into an immersive spatial environment. Seen through frameworks of magical realism, fantasy, and game theory, the work distorts and recombines these objects to expose the absurd, extractive, and intentionally convoluted nature of the system it draws from. As viewers move through the spiral, the architecture itself begins to feel unstable—warping and dissolving as the system it represents is conceptually dismantled.
By reshaping these materials into a navigable form, Supply & Demand foregrounds both the psychic and structural labyrinths of incarceration while imagining their eventual unraveling.
Expulsion
Colored pencil on paper, aluminum tamperproof bulletin display case, 48 x 2 x 72 inches
2025
Expulsion is a colored pencil drawing derived from a hallway inside the living unit of the Columbia Secure Center for Girls. The hallway is mirrored and refracted four times, transforming the rigid architecture into a prismatic corridor through which the exterior landscape of the Hudson River Valley presses through. This intrusion of natural light and terrain disrupts the cold geometry of the interior, suggesting a world attempting to pierce the impermeable logic of confinement.
The drawing is installed inside an aluminum tamperproof display case—identical to those used throughout American prisons and many public educational institutions. These cases, designed to be locked, non-destructive, and inaccessible, reveal a shared institutional logic: architectures built to control visibility, regulate information, and maintain distance between the viewer and the content displayed. By mounting the work within such a case, Expulsion introduces a deliberate layer of separation, echoing the psychological and physical barriers that structure carceral and educational environments alike. The locked enclosure becomes both a metaphor and an architectural echo—invoking the idea of escape while simultaneously foreclosing it, mirroring the tensions between containment, longing, and transformation embedded in the drawing itself.
Tesseract
colored pencil on glassine, aluminum tamperproof bulletin display case
24” (L) x 2” (W) x 36” (H)
2024
colored pencil on glassine, aluminum tamperproof bulletin display case
24” (L) x 2” (W) x 36” (H)
2024
Assembly
Assembly
Bob Barker plastic prison food trays coated in materials and images from the prison industrial supply chain.
Listed in order from the top down:
Tray 1: American Flag print on cotton, resin, bird poop
Tray 2: legal pad paper, Elmer’s glue, melted crayons
Tray 3: stickers, Elmer’s glue
Tray 4: toilet paper, Kool-Aide, Jolly Ranchers, Elmer’s glue
Tray 5: Hot Cheetos, Elmer’s glue Tray 6: religious fabric, resin
2024
Assembly
Bob Barker plastic prison food trays coated in materials and images from the prison industrial supply chain.
Listed in order from the top down:
Tray 1: American Flag print on cotton, resin, bird poop
Tray 2: legal pad paper, Elmer’s glue, melted crayons
Tray 3: stickers, Elmer’s glue
Tray 4: toilet paper, Kool-Aide, Jolly Ranchers, Elmer’s glue
Tray 5: Hot Cheetos, Elmer’s glue Tray 6: religious fabric, resin
2024
Blind spot
etched blindspot mirror, marker
18” diamater
2024
etched blindspot mirror, marker
18” diamater
2024
Summer Sandpails
colored pencil, papier-mâché, kozo-shi paper over wood panel
14” (L) x 2” (W) x 11”(H)
2024
colored pencil, papier-mâché, kozo-shi paper over wood panel
14” (L) x 2” (W) x 11”(H)
2024
👁️ Spy
defunct security camera, resin, goggly eye, plushie fabric, Elmers glue
3.2” (L) x 3.2” (W) x 3.5”(H)
2024
defunct security camera, resin, goggly eye, plushie fabric, Elmers glue
3.2” (L) x 3.2” (W) x 3.5”(H)
2024
Soapy
industrial soap dispenser, stickers, hd tv monitor, media player, electrical components
1 minute looping video
5.75” (L) x 5.25” (W) x 11.25”(H)
2023
industrial soap dispenser, stickers, hd tv monitor, media player, electrical components
1 minute looping video
5.75” (L) x 5.25” (W) x 11.25”(H)
2023
Contraband Bag_2
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
12”(L) x 9”(W) x 3”(H)
2021
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
12”(L) x 9”(W) x 3”(H)
2021
Cinderblock_3
#2 pencils, Elmers school glue
16” (L) x 8” (W) x 8” (H)
2023
#2 pencils, Elmers school glue
16” (L) x 8” (W) x 8” (H)
2023
Real Metal Cuffs
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
11”(L) x 5.25” (W) x 11”(H)
2023
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
11”(L) x 5.25” (W) x 11”(H)
2023
First Keys
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil, shrink wrap
7”(L) x 1.5” (W) x 5”(H)
2024
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil, shrink wrap
7”(L) x 1.5” (W) x 5”(H)
2024
Bubble Puddle
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
8.7” (W) x 24.8” (H)
2023
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
8.7” (W) x 24.8” (H)
2023
Oh Yeah!?
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
24oz bottle
2023
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
24oz bottle
2023
JL Marcus Commisary Catalog
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
14.5”(L) x 17.5”(H)
2023
paper mâché, kozo-shi paper, colored pencil
14.5”(L) x 17.5”(H)
2023
Cinderblock_2
cement, books, paper mâché, colored pencil
16” (L) x 8” (W) x 8” (H)
2023
(The books are recommended reading from the Columbia Collective.)
cement, books, paper mâché, colored pencil
16” (L) x 8” (W) x 8” (H)
2023
(The books are recommended reading from the Columbia Collective.)
Contraband Bag_4
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
13”(L) 14” (W) x 14” (H)
2023
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
13”(L) 14” (W) x 14” (H)
2023
Cinderblock_3
#2 pencils, Elmers school glue
16” (L) x 8” (W) x 8” (H)
2023
#2 pencils, Elmers school glue
16” (L) x 8” (W) x 8” (H)
2023
Contraband Bag_6
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
7.5”(L) x 4”(W) x 8.5”(H)
2023
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
7.5”(L) x 4”(W) x 8.5”(H)
2023
Contraband Bag_5
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
18”(L) x 14”(W) x 6.75”(H)
2023
clear bag, resin, contraband objects at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls
18”(L) x 14”(W) x 6.75”(H)
2023
A View
graphite on paper
12” x 18”
2022
graphite on paper
12” x 18”
2022