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LOIS ROGERZ: THE SAME AS ALWAYS
“Lois Rogerz: The Same as Always” is an immersive room installation that acts as a form of portraiture and a space for an imagined reality. This body of work questions how a persona can reveal a truth, how fabricated and thrifted objects capture the essence of an individual, and how reality and fiction come together in a single space. Lois Rogers was a friend, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and just so happens to be my great grandmother. I created the persona Lois Rogerz based on family stories about her and historical research. Using drag and AI, I created a version of herself that fused stories of the past with technology of the present. From the deep south of Gadsden, Alabama, she was known for her tenderness, ferocity, and grit. Utilizing inflatable sculptures and fabricated historical artifacts, I created the bedroom design loosely based on her time living in the Dwight Mill village in Gadsden, Alabama. The room installation and persona is a way to honor who she was and highlights how the combination of reality, fiction, and material culture can give great insight on who a person is. Shown at the Hapeville Depot museum.
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Wearables
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Lois Rogers Reimagined in Ai
I was interested in creating several different personas of my great grandmother Lois Rogers. I programmed an Ai database using images of me as a drag persona of her. These images are the result of a text to image database trained with my own images
Dirt Portraits
This is an ongoing series where I go to other artist studio's sweep their floors and interview them about my findings. I take the dust and dirt from their studio back to mine to combine it using machine stitching and water solvy. This project explores how material can be linked to a specific place and person and be an act of portraiture
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