I am a multimedia artist currently pursuing an MFA at the University of New Mexico. 

I am caught up in the impulse to record and the inevitable failure of preservation.  I piece together materials with hopes of creating adequate containers. These vessels must hold proof of both rituals and logistics. I cast miniature objects in bronze for precision, permanence, and truth. Weighted metals hold imprints of blanket seams and backpack straps – evidence of care. However, poetry and craft fall short when faced with additional features of daily life: overheard gossip, trash, lottery tickets left on the gas station counter. These too are containers. The heat of a torch turns bronze molten before being poured, but the heat of a thermal printer burns text into a receipt - both provide proof. Proof of what? TBD. Prompts for making impulsive sculpture help me bring in found materials. Prompts are another container (not a solution, but an entrance). They lead me to consumables, litter, and packaging. I escort these elements back to the more carefully crafted vessels to ask them how they would like to proceed. The outcome is an impulsive archive, or a collapsing archive – a simultaneous unraveling and preservation of the present moment.