a cowboy’s outfit — 3-Part Performance and Installation

2018 Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland, OR

A lone cowboy figure without their horse works daily throughout space of Ashland, herding a train of copper plates behind that interact with the surface of the land to simultaneously produce and obliterate marks into the matrices. Prints are created from the plates to be corralled into the cowboy’s private ranch which occupies the public Churchill Lawn of Southern Oregon University. This daily work of the cowboy transforms space into a site of reflection for how the “cowboy narrative” intersects and influences perceptions of bodily work, land use, gender construction, and symbolizes ideals of American masculinity.