Lost Woods/It’s Easy to Get Lost Here
2024-25, Interactive Mixed Media Installation
Lost Woods is an interactive art exhibition exploring the formation of queer identity in adolescence and the continual act of trauma processing in adulthood through children’s forts and video games. Through a foray into the incomprehensibility of youthful world-building, Lost Woods/It’s Easy to Get Lost Here presented sites of imaginative possibility and self exploration.
These interactive works explored the transformative nature of blanket forts, treehouses, and other makeshift childhood structures. The exhibit invited viewers into a series of impermanent constructions that investigated the formation of queer identity in adolescence.
Within the clubhouse, viewers were invited to play a choose-your-own-adventure video game featuring imagery and narrative from a previous reconstruction of the artist’s childhood home.
Fueled by Berries & Cream Dr Pepper, 2024 Wood, CRT TV, found, archival, and fabricated objects and images, chalk, carpet
Fueled by Berries & Cream Dr Pepper, 2024 Wood, CRT TV, found, archival, and fabricated objects and images, chalk, carpet
Fueled by Berries & Cream Dr Pepper, 2024 Wood, CRT TV, found, archival, and fabricated objects and images, chalk, carpet
Fueled by Berries & Cream Dr Pepper, 2024 Wood, CRT TV, found, archival, and fabricated objects and images, chalk, carpet
A Stolen Copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys, 2024 Wood, security camera, CRT TV, fabric, rope
A Stolen Copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys, 2024 Wood, security camera, CRT TV, fabric, rope
A Stolen Copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys, 2024 Wood, security camera, CRT TV, fabric, rope
Photography by: Quincey Miracle
Rogue Terminal Title Screen and Booklet Design: Cris Hylton
Installation Support: Nona Strange, Jack Strange, Oliver Besancon, Reva