artist statement
 
Today, the French will win. But so will the British. Reenactments have an artificial sense of democracy: everyone gets a taste of victory, regardless of the events portrayed. History as we encounter it is fabricated, sanitized and manipulated for consumption. These popular attempts at time-travel result in a dramatized past: history as theater, and reenactment as performance.
 
I work with these quasi-historical phenomena, both creating events and examining their manifestations in contemporary life. Investigating history’s protagonists becomes an exercise in contextualizing myself in the 21st century, and an opportunity to interrogate our longing for a past that never was.
 
Carriage replica for Interregnum (1815-1969) prior to breaking rear axle.