Installation > Living Things

Created during 3 month residency at Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea, June 2026. Violin performance of Black Orpheus performed by Danniell Gahui Ong.

Living Things examines how humanity situates itself in the world. We have a need to separate ourselves from the animal kingdom, something we do at our own peril. The installation includes a dinosaur made from the castoff of human activities, and a video loop featuring vistas of dead civilizations and current vacation footage, all inhabited periodically by CGI dinosaurs while Danniell Gahui Ong performs Black Orpheus. The video runs forward in the front of the gallery, and backward in the back of the gallery, suggesting and endless cycle of life, creation, and decay.