For my BFA thesis exhibition, I created a 16 × 16 ft wall installation using a series of scrolls covered in handwritten text. The writing began as a form of automatic writing, drawing on methods used by the Surrealists, such as automatic writing. It was initially a way to process grief, but over time it developed into something much larger, that being a sustained practice of recording memory and presence.

The scrolls became a tool for exploring space, especially unused or overlooked areas within the art building on campus. Variations included hanging them from pipes and lights, or draping them from the roof until they touched the parking lot below. These site-specific experiments allowed me to test how the work could inhabit and consume space, while also teaching me to slow down and be present in one place at a time.

For the final thesis installation, each scroll was coated in wax, crumpled, and then un-crumpled, giving the paper a hardened, textured surface that carried traces of its transformation. A variety of scrolls also encountered another layer of blue acrylic screen print on top of the hardened wax. The pieces were then rearranged across the gallery wall like a puzzle shifting away from their original linear form. What began as a continuous stream of writing was ultimately reconfigured into a large and fractured surface of process, material change, and shifting states of thought.