Love Handles
An ever-changing selection of artistic goings-on.
In my art, I attempt to build moments that feel like witnessing animation. Drawn to aesthetics that sit somewhere between a Shel Silverstein drawing and an episode of the Twilight Zone, I am intrigued by the ways the endearing softness of illustration and the eerie mysticism of the unknown can weave together to ignite communal daydreaming (if we can be curious here and now, what else can we think about together?). Specializing in short-form devising and storytelling, modern myth making, and puppetry, I bring to life and visibility the multiple social histories that sit behind every interaction with a desire to replace hierarchy with abundance. Often using mosaics as a premise for blending the roles of maker and curator, I believe in the relationship between artist and audience to be one of poetry// The artist again and again releasing perfection in the name of iterations, and the audience growing their own autonomy by allowing their imagination to fill the gaps between each try.
Check out The New York Neo-Futurists. and our past primetime show, Try This on For Me … while you’re at it, Give our NYTimes endorsed podcast, Hit Play, a listen:
Check out my other collaborating companies, Radical Evolution and Agile Rascal Theatre. In addition to over 200 2-minute shorts written during my tenure as a New York Neo-Futurists, my full length plays include Within Distance, Chai Chai, A Jar for Flowers, and The Dog is Alive at the Start of the Play.
I have been lucky to share work that I’ve loved to make all across the world. Some of these spaces includes, The Gallatin Galleries: Diasporic Tremors, The Bronx Academy of Art and Dance: Out Dance!, and Greenwich Village’s Kimmel Windows: We/They. I have been supported with residencies from The Bandung Residency at MoCADA and A4, The Lighthouse Residency at the BEAM Center, and The MacDowell Fellowship.
FILM: Blossoming Wasp (Producer, Writer, Actor: Sai): A counterfeit artist convinces himself that the money he fabricates is going to change his family’s grief after his father passes.
FILM: KNOWN. (Producer, Writer, Director, Actor: Om): A known sperm donor decides, midst his own questions about family and responsibility, to buy a plant to try and take care of that begins to consume his bedroom.
INSTALLATION (Video and Audio): Aloo Paratha: A poetic recipe originally published in Recipes for the Revolution, and visualizer (within installation, both played at different speeds on loop through a magic “kurkure” snack box.
THEATER: Chai Chai (Playwright, Performer: Giant, Puppeteer). Brought over 500 miles on bike across 7 cities in New Mexico in the Fall of 2023 with Agile Rascal Theater, Chai Chai follows the cast of curious characters around a chai stall on the outskirts of a town subject to the act of forgetting.
THEATER: The Dog is Alive at the Start of the Play (Producer, Playwright, Director): Finalist and special mention for the Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize and originally premiering at Dixon Place’s HOTFest!, The Dog is Alive at the Start of the Play is a queer love story following an immigrant family in the suburbs of Pittsburgh and their dying dog opening up a rift in space and time in the middle of an “apocalypse.”
THEATER: Boxers (An excerpt from Try This on for Me) Writer, Performer. A comedic excerpt written for Try This on for Me performed at Joe’s Pub. It is about… well… Boxers.
THEATER: The Infinite Wrench (Writer, Performer, Director). Some images from my time with the New York Neo-Futurists and our weekly show, The Infinite Wrench, performing a weekly show of thirty plays in one hours.