"White Noise" is an evolving and versatile installation of over 50 photographic works, videos, and photo-sculptures—born from a three-year performance that began in 2015. Catalyzed by the birth of my son and the cultural upheaval surrounding the Trump presidency, the project interrogates white masculinity in crisis, tracing its descent into grievance, repression, and rage.
Rooted in my own biography—raised on a small farm outside Pulaski, Tennessee (the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan), within an authoritarian Evangelical household, and later serving in the U.S. Army—the work imagines an alternate self shaped by inherited ideology, cultural fear, and entitlement. Though I’ve worked to dismantle these foundations, the specter of what I might have become remains.
My son, whose birth sparked this inquiry, also stars in the resulting images—marking a generational handoff, a point of reflection, and an ethical imperative. Through staged scenes, personal archives, documentary fragments, and performative fictions, "White Noise" collapses the line between autobiography and constructed narrative. As both subject and maker, I embody the speculative figure of the angry white male—unearthing the emotional engine of white grievance and the structures that enable it.
This work argues that such toxicity is not innate, but bred—cultivated through enculturation, dogma, and fear. By grounding the piece in personal lineage, "White Noise" opens space to examine how identity is formed, inherited, and potentially interrupted.
At a time of escalating extremism, the project seeks not resolution, but confrontation—an urgent reckoning with where we come from and where we’re headed.
