The Trophy Wives Prep Program

The Trophy Wives Prep Program, Porterville Community College. 2022

The Trophy Wives Prep Program, presented as a fictional preparatory curriculum, introduced a cast of named figures: Ku Klux Karen, Candy the Capitalist, Dolores the Dominionist, and others. Each Campus Cutie is mounted on a gold trophy base as an award for embodying a distinct mode of complicity, denial, or harm. The work examined how identities are formed through learned behaviors, aspirational roles, and systems of reward, asking viewers to consider the often-invisible processes through which power reproduces itself, and who gets celebrated for carrying it forward.

Painted 3D Prints mounted on laser-engraved boxes. 2021-22.