For my graduate thesis consisting of three video works, Tomb of the Known, Assume the Watch, and Saturn Devoured, it is my desire to raise awareness about something many veterans are diagnosed with, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. 
In Tomb of the Known I use the World Wide Web, combing through countless websites, gathering images for projection onto buildings or inside public spaces.  I carefully research and disseminate pertinent information on deaths of U.S. female soldiers, record a spoken eulogy and create a slideshow in Final Cut Editor for each woman.  
I perform live, in uniform, using an amalgamation of movements executed by male service members at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery with a mourning process that I witnessed a woman performing for a loved one in the Middle East… burying herself /myself in sand.
Repetitively I perform my march, commemorating the loss of these young women, and myself, in order to embody mechanisms of post-traumatic stress disorder.  This artwork is an endurance piece.  My ritual will end as soon as our Commander-in-Chief declares that “combat operations” are officially over.

MCA INDOORS (REPAIRING AND CLEANING SPACE/UNIFORM)

ASSUME THE WATCH VIDEO

SATURN DEVOURED VIDEO