• P R O J E C T S
• Across the Surface
• The Weight
• Rib Cage
• Getting Strong Now
• The Sheboygan Boxing Project
• When Push Comes
• In Search of Nostalgia
• Havisham
• Desperado
• Saddledrag
• Seeding Project
• To the Moon and Die!
• Warm Guns

• w./ C H E L E I S A A C
• Among My Many Failures
• Westward
• The Death of Peter Pan

• S K E T C H E S
• The Hits
• Mr. September
• Beefcake
• Webcam Self-Portraits

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Havisham

Havisham [2007] is a two-channel video tableaux that seats two dandies at opposite ends of a long table piled with oversized wedding cakes. They appear fully prepared to engage in the spectacle of marriage, but much like the character from Great Expectations, find themselves frozen in place at what should be the location of their celebration. This piece is sympathetic to the drive for legally recognized partnerships; its melodramatic spectacle illustrates the alienation felt by two bachelors who are surrounded by symbols of marriage, but seem unable to ritually consummate their relationship. In contrast to the position of Dickens’ Havisham, these bachelors have not been waiting for decades at their banquet table, their cakes have not rotted, and neither has been left standing at the alter. In this sense, the dandies could as easily be on a wedding cake hunger strike, protesting an obsessive pursuit of marriage and its attendant assimilation.