Best Laid Plans
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Tyler School of Art
February 2020
Best Laid Plans positions a self-published artist’s book as the central object in an immersive narrative environment. Within a story about my personal tendency for order, I consider the merits of planning, asking how preparation functions as a form of escapism. The narrative investigates familiar objects and daily routines, underscoring their reassuring qualities and, simultaneously, their potential to be leveraged in pursuit of disembodiment and catharsis.
The exhibition translates the book’s imagery and text across a variety of visual media, allowing viewers to engage with the haptic and transportive qualities of the printed book, while also framing it as a field guide to its complementary art objects and installations.


Becoming Smaller, cyanotype, 22 x 30"


The Ground Beneath My Feet, cyanotype, 22 x 30"


Just in Case, cyanotype, 22 x 30"


Inventory, risograph prints, 10 x 12" ea.


Some Imagined Fence, multimedia installation (risograph prints, digitally-printed cotton, vinyl wall text, sound), dimensions variable

Nowhere and Nothing, projected animation, approximately 18' x 6' (installation view)



Nowhere and Nothing, projected animation, approximately 18' x 6'

Practical Magic, cyanotype, 30 x 22"


Poppies, paper sculpture (risograph print, poppy seeds), 3 x 5"

Zzzzz, wall sculpture (manipulated digital print on cotton), 30 x 20"