Which Side Are You on, Now?

Which Side Are You on, Now? Tell Me, Which Side Are You on?

Corridor Gallery, Fresno, CA, 2024.

Which Side Are You On, Now? takes its title from the labor anthem, transposing its urgent question of solidarity and allegiance onto the bodies of the Campus Cuties — here cast in wax and elevated on columns as caryatids, the female figures from ancient architecture condemned to bear the weight of structures above them. Made in response to ongoing threats to democratic participation, the work asks who is expected to sustain systems that consume them. As each figure burned through the duration of the exhibition, it transformed from symbol of support and aspiration into a record of endurance, labor, and loss — asking viewers to consider what it costs to hold something up.

Wax figures on columns. 2024.