Videos
I got into videos the same way people become best friends: A first encounter and then after some time, suddenly you’re sharing the deepest part of yourselves and can’t imagine who you’d be without the experience you’ve gained. My first introduction to creating videos happened on the family desktop when I was very young, but it wasn’t until college when I realized that it was a medium that allows for more freedom than other art forms can offer. Through videos, I am able to reach my viewer through visuals and audio, offering deeper themes of time, memory, and space.
Synapse
Synapse was created for my Undergraduate Senior Thesis Project in 2019 as a piece to remember the four years I have spent as a student at the University of Mary Washington. I use the past as a way to move forward but I also appreciate the lessons I have learned, the people I have met, the places I have been, and the wide range of feelings experienced to remember those moments.
This is an evolving collage of personal archival footage from each month I spent physically present at the University of Mary Washington that creates a constant tension between the concrete and abstract in order to mimic the way that I process memories.
Best Buds
Featuring 300 flowers, 43 Adobe Premiere video channels, 31 yards, and 2 visits to the Hurley Convergence Center to make sure each clip was perfectly aligned with the large media screen and smaller screens within it, the end result of Best Buds becomes a stunning multi-channel video of flowers formatted specifically to fit an oddly-shaped screen. It’s like being in a flower field during springtime, minus the allergies!
Don’t Get It Twisted
My goal for Don’t Get It Twisted was experimentation. I don't get to do a lot of that and sometimes it stresses me out, not knowing what the next step in the process is. But I had a lot of fun with this video! I loved messing with the colors and distortions, as well as being able to be free in creating without the vision of a final product in mind. It was an exercise in letting go.
Table of Contents
This is not a documentary about overcoming. This is a documentary about existing.
The Eleventh Commandment
The Very True Story of how I got a detention in high school for wearing gray socks.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is an experimental 35mm film that was played on a reel and recorded digitally. I used markers and nail polish to alter the film’s integrity and push it and the reel it was played on to their limits.
