Thoughts and Prayers is an exhibition that explores power, control, and ideology examined through the lens of a fictional society. Through sculpture, 2D work, and immersive vignettes,
I construct a world that mirrors and distorts the structures of Western culture, revealing the absurdities and contradictions embedded within it.
Using furniture, artifacts, dioramas, and sculptural elements, the work interrogates the forces that shape identity: gender roles, religious dogma, political propaganda, militarism, and consumerism. These pieces do not present answers but rather pose questions forcing the viewer to navigate an unfamiliar yet eerily recognizable world.
Critiquing one’s own culture carries the inherent risk of alienating parts of the audience before the work has been fully considered. By crafting a proxy society from the ground up, the work lays bare the myths and mechanisms of our culture. The constructed objects serve as relics of a belief system both foreign and intimately familiar, inviting reflection on the systems society inherits, perpetuates, and resists.
Thoughts and Prayers is a space for speculation, satire, and critique a place to see the world not as it is, but as it might appear from the outside looking in.