Solo show at Coop Gallery! March 2021
Cataclysm/Catechism holds a tension that sits at the core of my work—the collision between destruction and imposed meaning, between systems that try to control the world and the forces that inevitably unravel them. The title comes from Jeff VanderMeer’s Area X trilogy, where the known order breaks down into something alien and unrecognizable. That breakdown, that transformation, feels central to what I do.
Growing up Catholic, catechism was a structure meant to provide answers—to make sense of the world, to impose order, to define the boundaries of belief. Cataclysm, on the other hand, is an undoing. It’s collapse, rupture, mutation—something that can’t be contained within doctrine. In my work, I’m always drawn to these moments of failure and transformation, where systems—whether religious, technological, or cultural—crack under pressure, making space for something new to emerge.
I think about this in my process, too. My prints and videos embrace errors and glitches, refusing a clean or rigid final form. The work itself resists being neatly categorized, much like the speculative worlds VanderMeer writes about—worlds where things shift, dissolve, and reconfigure into something beyond human understanding. To me, Cataclysm/Catechism isn’t just a title—it’s the push and pull of everything I make.