Let Me Be
2025
Video Projection and Plaster
Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst MA
This installation grows out of a year of filming while walking and moving through different cities and letting the camera rest quietly against my body. The footage reflects ordinary passages through public space: crowds, streets, sky, ground, and the small rhythms of being among others. These images form two frames in the projection, meeting at the angle between two walls to create a house like structure.
In the center of the piece the plaster casts of my lower face, chest, belly, and feet become part of the projected image. The hands float at the edge of the projection, a gesture that could be read in multiple ways. Viewers are invited to encounter the piece from their own position, noticing whatever emerges in the meeting between image, space, and body.
The work reflects my ongoing search for belonging—feeling suspended between places, like a tree drifting in the sky. It asks whether a body can simply be allowed to be.
