Piece Statement: Over the past couple years there has been an increase of immigration to the US from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. On a federal level, the US has not received their people well – the opposite can be said about their resources. This installation depicts an entryway scene highlighting the various imports from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala such as: mineral fuels, machinery, electric machinery, cereals (corn), and cotton. This piece brings into question the US’s continuing ironic and exploitative treatment towards immigrants and refugees.

Piece Statement: Over the past couple years there has been an increase of immigration to the US from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. On a federal level, the US has not received their people well – the opposite can be said about their resources. This installation depicts an entryway scene highlighting the various imports from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala such as: mineral fuels, machinery, electric machinery, cereals (corn), and cotton. This piece brings into question the US’s continuing ironic and exploitative treatment towards immigrants and refugees.

(Photo by student) Piece Statement: Our use and dependence on plastic has increased exponentially since the 1950s; beginning with a production amount of 2.3 million pounds to our current average of 300 million pounds. Beginning in 1980, this piece visits each decade to graph that year’s increased plastic production.

(Photo by student) Piece Statement: Our use and dependence on plastic has increased exponentially since the 1950s; beginning with a production amount of 2.3 million pounds to our current average of 300 million pounds. Beginning in 1980, this piece visits each decade to graph that year’s increased plastic production.

(Photo by student) Piece Statement: My work takes a look at the corporations in the United States and try to learn more about their socio-economic relationship in our country. JBS is a subsidiary of a Brazilian company, JBSW, the world’s largest meat processing plant. Cattle ranching in Brazil is causing up to 80% of the destruction of our rainforest. 960 Hectares were burned last year alone. I used this sculpture to bring awareness to myself and those around me about the cause and effect of where our goods come from. I used the trojan steer as a parable to illustrate that these cows are more than just vessels for hamburgers, and that their origins may have a more complex history.

(Photo by student) Piece Statement: My work takes a look at the corporations in the United States and try to learn more about their socio-economic relationship in our country. JBS is a subsidiary of a Brazilian company, JBSW, the world’s largest meat processing plant. Cattle ranching in Brazil is causing up to 80% of the destruction of our rainforest. 960 Hectares were burned last year alone. I used this sculpture to bring awareness to myself and those around me about the cause and effect of where our goods come from. I used the trojan steer as a parable to illustrate that these cows are more than just vessels for hamburgers, and that their origins may have a more complex history.

(Photo by student) Piece Statement: In the piece “The Sky is Falling” I wanted to illustrate the power of a word. Social media has created a platform of unaccountability with devastating proportions. The power that one word can have, without accountability can have astronomical consequences. Many of my work deals with concepts of power. The baby chick, in a lot of ways, represents almost the opposite of this. As individuals, we can feel powerless, disconnected and staring at our phones. This is contrasted with the looming bombs on the horizon, implying power. We see the world through our phones, and I think it can often distract us from reality. By forcing the viewer to interact with the sculpture with their phones, I try and make this connection.

(Magazine cover mock-up of overshoe by student)