About the work

The boots are too big. Not just for their feet, but for the entire staged drama unfolding on this patch of grass. Someone has borrowed them, perhaps from a parent, or found them at a thrift store, and now they are performing in them, clomping through an imagined scene. This oversized footwear speaks to the awkwardness of pretense, the way we try to fill roles that aren't quite ours, or even real. There is a sense of something being borrowed, temporarily inhabited, a costume that doesn't quite fit the part being played, yet it is all that is available. That ill-fitting quality reveals an underlying truth about the provisional nature of human performance, how we step into roles with borrowed props and an earnest, if slightly comical, conviction.