Effigy of the Mundane.

Living and working in Bushwick, I’m surrounded daily by the remnants of human life—the residue of over-consumption. It clogs gutters, packs into corners and becomes the city’s skin. This is the Anthropocene. The Human era. We come bearing a layer of detritus poised to persist for millennia, quickly becoming part of the fossil record & our legacy.

Each plastic fork, birthday balloon, half-smoked cigarette or discarded battery on Morgan Avenue a reminder—is this the new reality of our greater timeline?

Through my work, I aim to reclaim this timeline. Individual effigies of the discarded and mundane objects, in familiar yet unbranded forms. Painted with water-soluble paint, carved from locally harvested, wind-fallen timber, forced to reckon and unable to escape nature. Each effigy entangled with its analogue of discarded waste, each a gesture of hope: a denial of permanence. By offering these effigies to the sun, rain, soil, life and the broader microcosm, I encourage a return. A disentangling of the synthetic, a relinquishing of state, reweaving back into the ever-moving natural cycle.