Objects of Measurement

Objects of Measurement focuses on the objects, interfaces, and everyday artifacts through which bodies and behaviors are measured, evaluated, corrected, or classified.

Using the familiar forms of assessment, self-improvement, and institutional display, the works examine what happens when systems of measurement become part of everyday life.

Series I: The Fantasy of Objectivity

The Fantasy of Objectivity examines the visual language of measurement.

Series II: Taxonomy of Imagined Lives

Human beings are relentless meaning-making machines. Give us a bag and we'll invent a life.

This project examines how an ordinary object — a shopping bag — becomes a proxy for identity.

What do you see in each of these images?

Who is this woman, do you imagine?