I’ve Ruined Everything

︎New Gallery, Bed Stuy

"I've Ruined Everything" serves as a confrontation with the artist's intentional self-sabotage that subsequently jump-started the rest of her life. Encapsulated in a one-night solo exhibition, the series reflects on the stages of grief through five masked figures, and each season of the year through four celestial bodies. Positioned facing each other, the walls prompt viewers to confront the reality that profound sadness can be overcome with time, patience, and the acceptance of mistakes. This exhibition invites reflection on the connection between total self destruction and personal (re)growth.
A guarantee to the audience that all sorrow will eventually yield to the inevitable passage of time.

I projected a video of my time-lapsed digital art on the middle of the gallery wall. I thought maybe since I just printed a bunch of digital art out and hung it up in Ikea frames, the rest of the show should have a blatantly digital aspect. Silly enough, the projector wasn’t bright enough and tilted off center, so no one could make out the artist statement (or most of what was happening on the screen). Luckily, the show is about celebrating failure, otherwise that would have been way more devastating. 

IRE ended up being a hodge podge of work that I love, the catharsis of fucking things up, relinquishing control, and the hilarity of thinking you had any control to begin with.