solo exhibition

• ROTATOR: Solo Exhibition @ Ignition Project Space

• Exhibition dates: May 1 to May 25, 2026

• Opening: May 1, 6-9pm

• Artist talk: May 16, 2pm

• Gallery hours: Saturdays 12-4pm

• Ignition Project Space, 3839 West Grand Ave, Chicago

Artist Statement

The word reads the same forwards and backwards, mirroring itself perfectly. Rotator performs rotation just by being read — form and meaning reflect each other. Arguably the most philosophically complete palindrome: ROTATOR enacts its meaning.

Being inside a future once imagined is stranger than the wanting of it.

Seeing from within a once-future now is unmooring — calmer in some places, wilder in others.

Can we see the texture of the actual? Not the dream of a life, but the life of a dream?

A new place becomes familiar as time is lost inside of it. This is the unexpected weight of a world created with intention.

Rotator is the lightness of beauty that arrives without being conceived of. The synchronicity of a plan not fully fleshed out that becomes a reality which cannot be removed from the picture.

The act of rotation only functions as it moves.

For an object like a gyroscope, a bicycle wheel, a spinning top, rotation is their function. Stillness changes their purpose. As a metaphor, this inverts the usual assumption that a successful life means rest.

Rotation is to be present inside a life you only once imagined. Human presence isn’t stillness or clarity, it is  both the balance within rotation and the disorientation of attempting to take stock of it. Always in equilibrium inside something, never outside it looking in.

ROTATOR

The palindrome works as a whole only from a separate vantage point, the same forwards and backwards, but we are always in the center of it, processing the strangeness of a life that has arrived. Is the still center created by infinite movement what being present actually feels like?