Rerites is a mixed media installation that examines the interplay between correction, discovery and erasure. The work takes its cue from a line in the Missouri/Nebraska section of Lewis and Clark’s Journals: “I am much engaged reriting” and considers what it means to rewrite and “re-rite." Obviously, the word refers to the entries Clark kept during their journey, but it also seems to make reference to Lewis and Clark’s broader culture venture—recording and cataloguing, but also erasing, writing over space and “riteing” tradition. Read this way, Rerites considers this erasure, destruction, and ordering with an environment full of potential actions, arrangements, and aftermaths. Nothing is meant to be lost. Everything is meant to be used. Gathering, collecting, remixing, redoing. “Rerites” creates an all-encompassing environment that is at once an invitation and a refusal--an invitation to arrange, rearrange, and recalibrate space.

"Rerites," Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2012