Full of found footage and animations, Everything, All At Once moves through a child’s stages of realization, denial, fear, and hope as he questions the validity of his past memories and his relationship to the mother figure. Although the piece has a great deal of anxiety, it ends on an empowered note made when the child internalized his perception of his environment.   

Environments

"I have always suffered from…the uneasiness of being a subject torn between two languages, one expressive, one critical" - Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

This series looks at three non-physical, memory-based environments which, though they are difficult to define, shape the daily life of an individual. Everything, All At Once considers the environment of a family structure, and the feelings of abandonment and empowerment a young person feels upon remembering that environment's imperfections; Dreaming of Forests (video), which accompanied the play Dreaming of Forests by Doug Bedwell, looks at the physical environment, and the struggle of balancing the responsibility to a larger cause against the desire of personal interests; and Dissolve, a collaboration with composer Jonathan Sokol, struggles with memories and the past, and how their repeating and changing nature constantly creates an environment the individual lives in.

This three year project is composed of three thirty-minute videos, each of which uses expressive and introspective imagery, animations, found footage, and digital video to explore alternate environments created by memories. Each shared the same goal of taking a closer look at the non-physical, intensely personalized environments that inform our personal daily decisions in our shared environments.