float

2022, single-channel UHD video, color, stereo sound, 29 minutes

float contrasts the manicured resort landscape and its guests with the immigrant labor that sustains them, layering holiday kitsch into the Florida heat, where racial inequality and American excess are on full display. Human vanity, embodied in mutable bodies, collides with the inevitability of aging, turning appearance into fiction, performance, and spectacle—a futile dance of pleasure and gratification against time’s inexorable march.