Elysian brings together projects that explore environmental and familial spaces. One component is an ongoing body of work examining the interplay between natural and constructed
environments. Found materials, collected during daily walks in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, are incorporated into studio sculptures. These sculptures are photographed, digitally manipulated,
and exhibited alongside smaller landscape photographs taken during those same walks—a cumulative reflection on debris, routine, and the convergence of the natural and built worlds.
The second component reflects on what is left behind within a family home. As my siblings and I sorted through our mother’s belongings this process became a navigation of presence
and absence. Nine photographs of arranged objects are paired with photographs of the family home and neighborhood. Accompanying these are seven small collages made from
magazine clippings, depictions of ideal patios and blooming rose, that gesture toward aspirational visions of leisure and domestic life. Together, these projects blur boundaries between
interior and exterior, between personal memory and public space.
