Taking One for the Team 

Ceramics, Textiles, Mixed Media, Social Engagement, Sound, 2022

Still Life With Fruit Gallery, DeLand, FL

Taking One For The Team is a large scale installation of exuberant award forms and a participatory sound element. This new body of work explores hierarchies, power, value and endurance sparked by events in recent years.

By definition, Taking One for the Team means to willingly undertake an unpleasant task or make a personal sacrifice for the collective benefit of one's family, friends or colleagues. As the global pandemic and unrest continue to unravel in our exhausted communities: How have we taken one for the team? What does that term mean to us personally? Through these stories we will learn what this means collectively in our current climate, and offer some Cheer in return.

These stories, alongside recorded cheers from Stetson University's Cheer Team, were amplified from the truck bed-meets curatorial platform Tailgate Projects, In collaboration with the project’s lead artist, Kale Roberts, we built a custom trophy for the platform, featuring the sound piece for the opening reception of Taking One for the Team at on May 6, 2022. Roberts then drove the truck across the state of Florida to Tampa for Failure is Always an Option as the culmination of their road trip across the South.

Failure is Always and Option at Parallelogram Gallery in Tampa, FL with a live piercing performance by Kale Roberts, and handmade awards by both Roberts and me.