sculpture, photography, installation, durational performance/intervention. 2010- ongoing
Shoe polish is a unbound sedimentary soot - toxic, rudimentary and ubiquitous. In this series, I use shoe polish as an invention into institutional and colonial architecture.
The act of applying shoe polish, or polishing a surface with an opaque yet transitory material, is reflective of class and its socioeconomic positions. I perform and document these impermanent interventions to capture the cycles of extraction, erasure, and recreation of everyday labor, highlighting how meaning and relevance are constantly reshaped and deferred.