After a delay in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, I was able to participate in my first artist residency in 2021 at Pilotenkueche International Gallery in Leipzig, Germany. My mission was to expand my portfolio of flying bodies which began during my thesis show, Rapture and was supplemented with immense inspiration from my experiences skydiving.

I knew I wanted the work to be larger than life installations that were actually suspended in the air which led to some experimentation of different materials. I landed (no skydiving pun intended) on using layers of trace paper I painted on and collaged together to create installations that were very reactionary to airflow in the room. In this way, the pieces took on a sort of kinetic energy in response to the movement of viewers as the walked about the gallery.