Many of my projects are conceptual umbrellas: long-term collaborative frameworks from which drawings, performances, objects, processions, sound works, ceremonies, and participatory experiences emerge over time. Often unfolding across years and in collaboration with other artists, scientists, musicians, chefs, students, and local communities, these projects gradually evolve into temporary worlds with their own emotional logic, rituals, aesthetics, and social structures.

I think of my work as a form of emotional architecture: structures that help people collectively process change, rehearse possible futures, and experience themselves differently in relationship to one another. Many of my projects function as what I think of as dreaming apparatuses—collaborative systems for imagining futures that do not yet exist, and for inventing the stories, and ceremonies that might help us inhabit them.

photo by Terry Brown