"The Amorphous Shame". Cardboard, human, tape, laptop, Max 9, bluetooth speaker, keyboard, microphone, mixer, audio jacks.
"The Turk". Mixed media installation. Audio gear implied, clown hat optional, photographed by Beth McDonald, October 2025.
"The Turk", alternate render (transparent). Photographed by Beth McDonald, October 2025
"I beg your pardon". Cardboard, tape, laptop, Max 9, bluetooth speaker, keyboard, microphone, mixer, audio jacks, paper scraps. Photographed by Ruby Kemp, May 2025.
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours
Fine Arts
The Turk is an unmasked pastiche of my previous works this year, using audience interaction to express the frustrations of growing up autistic; a perpetual frustration in desiring social interaction, yet helplessly watching from behind my eyes as the faces before me scrunch up to the words leaving my mouth.
Through the heavily evocative nature of sound sculpture, I've aimed to break down this barrier by immersing the audience in these frustrations.
From being babbled at by a towering humanoid, to myself sitting inside a grotesque caricature, fruitlessly communicating with the outside world - the absurd endpoint was to simply present... myself. The Turk satirizes my perceived form, staring blankly and talking a bit too loud, a small computer running inside my removable scalp. My heart on a cardboard sleeve as I am spoken to, toyed with, and misunderstood for eternity.
Through the heavily evocative nature of sound sculpture, I've aimed to break down this barrier by immersing the audience in these frustrations.
From being babbled at by a towering humanoid, to myself sitting inside a grotesque caricature, fruitlessly communicating with the outside world - the absurd endpoint was to simply present... myself. The Turk satirizes my perceived form, staring blankly and talking a bit too loud, a small computer running inside my removable scalp. My heart on a cardboard sleeve as I am spoken to, toyed with, and misunderstood for eternity.
