Hope's Madness

installation with 3-channel video, ceramic sculptures, print

2L Studios, Brooklyn, New York

Hope's Madness is a video installation shot and inspired by a road trip through Death Valley. By finding beauty in the desert nature, the work attempts to grapple onto hope even when faced with the unspeakable horrors and seeming hopelessness that surronds our political realities.

Apathy and desperation are dead ends that only benefit the people in power. For millenia the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe has lived in the area and call it Tümpisa, meaning "rock paint". Just like Death Valley as a name was imposed much later by people who did not know the area, so is the sense of doom installed in us artificially today. What else is there left to do than to dream of a better future?

✽⁕Bloom in the oddest of places⁕✽