A response to the pandemic. If I can’t go to the cinema, then the cinema shall come to me. My iPad fits in the proscenium.

A darker piece, by far, than the whimsical iPad cinema. I made this piece at 1:12 scale, so it’s an unsettling sort of doll house. The floorboards are popsicle sticks with the rounded ends cut off. I made the Shaker furniture, too. A laboring woman has been here, and her new baby. Who else was here, and where is everyone now?

An old, black and white photograph of a prison barracks inspired this piece. I painted it realistically, but it looked too much like a work by American photographer and sculptor William Christenberry. The black paint takes the piece elsewhere — it’s realistic, but not. I exhibited it at the YoungArts Gallery in Miami in 2018.

This 1:12 miniature cabin is my ‘place in the woods.’ I published an essay about it in Minnesota Monthly Magazine.

I made this piece my sophomore year of high school, when we read Walden. When I brought it to class, the girl who sat next to me leaned over and said, “Did you make that?” I said I did. “It’s really good.” She was really cute, and she liked my little house. That means it’s probably still my most successful piece. I present it all these years later with affection.