“Buzzard’s Roost”

Multimedia installation

April - May 2022

ROY G BIV Gallery

Named after the Boy Scout summer camp of my youth, this was my first exhibition after graduating from Ohio State, as part of a group of two other artists at ROY G BIV’s monthly rotation of emerging artists. The meta-narrative of this installation was meant as a merging of the past and potential future. At once it is an attempted resurrection of my childhood at camp through personal totems, like my old Scouting uniform laid on a mat under the reflective shelter, and a digital reciting of a Creepypasta story, heard through wired headphones around a staged fire ring. At the same time, it imagines a post-apocalyptic future where Americans are forced to survive in the woods and educate subsequent generations through physical scraps of our existing society. The wall is decorated with cut out images and pages of text that cover the whole of human history and biological sciences, which surround paintings that illustrate types of animal migrations.