“As If” reflects upon growing up in a period of extreme mass consumerism after a boom in American Markets in the early 90s. The phrase was used frequently by the character Cher Horowitz, in the 1995 film Clueless, a parody of this time.
These two words, a preposition joined with a conjunction, are grammatically two elements that should never immediately be put together. Collectively it is a statement of complete resistance and a denial of a language system. 

The two works included in the installation are a series of six collages and a 36-part ceramic installation. Stick-on earrings were mass-produced accessories targeted to young girls in the early 90s. As a precursor to a customary female right of passage (piercing my ears pierced at the local mall’s Claire’s Boutique) these single-use plastics became a way to enact a role predefined by the expectations of companies perpetuating the values of gender expression through their product. While their production is ubiquitous today, part of me feels guilty about where all of these little stars and hearts and moons went after their short lifespan, as I am now an advocate for the reduction of plastic use and production. As a group of 36 handpainted slip-cast porcelain shapes, the series presents only an abbreviated segment of an accurate sticker sheet.