I root for the underdog: the unpopular and the discarded. I navigate the world as an outsider and I explore. My work investigates my observations and internalizations of an urban experience and its relationship to human nature. I am interested in Guy Debord’s theory of “psychogeography,” which promotes the idea that your environment has psychological manifestations. Observing the city, and its repetitive and often dilapidated or abandoned appearance I am drawn to what is left behind, overlooked, or needs to be built again.

Much of my work utilizes more than one time-based image next to each other in a single video that comments on the complex arrangement people have with their surroundings and behavior. I also incorporate figures engaged in repetitive acts to portray a continuous, internalized cycle. By using a figure in a video acting out a scenario, capturing a discarded object in resin or video, or documenting my observations through photography- I think about the cyclic momentum of the survival instinct in our actions and environment.

-Michelle Dunn