2020-

Kudzilla is the eco-cultural id of the kudzu vine. It is the botanical-evangelical legend writ large, a mythic projection of our minds in vegetal form. This project attempts to construct a fast-forwarded time-lapse of kudzu as hyperobject.

They say you can watch kudzu grow. Uncontrolled growth rates scare people, raising their amygdala fear centers. We associate uncontrolled growth with cancer, crowding, invasive plants and rampant pollution. By association, kudzu becomes the font of some of the most malignant myths that plague our home-grown landscapes. In the U.S., we fed it our disturbed soils and it became Kudzilla, the ethno-botanical-evangelical-myth.

-Spring 2024- Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO

-Fall 2023- Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, NC

-Featured on bus stops in Miami for Miami Art Week w/ SAS

-Previously exhibited @ VAE Raleigh’s Approaching Maximum and Click! @ NC Museum of Art, 2021.

Large-format prints available upon request.

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