Sidewalk Sale is a performative installation that transforms the shopping cart—an icon of both consumption and homelessness—into 'a mobile luxury home' traversing Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. A figure in white, face obscured, pushes this contradictory vessel through streets where the American Dream's failures are most visible, creating moments of pause, interaction, and uncomfortable recognition.

The work interrogates who gets to participate in the American Dream by staging luxury as both aspiration and cruel joke within the geography of abandonment.

Rather than treating Skid Row as backdrop, the work recognizes it as a complex ecosystem with its own economies and forms of resilience. The performance creates temporary moments where different worlds collide, generating new possibilities for seeing and being seen. The mobility of the cart allows the work to adapt to street rhythms while creating multiple encounter points across the geography of exclusion.

This work extends my ongoing investigation of "visual consciousness"—examining how perception is socially constructed and how visibility operates as power. The white suit renders me simultaneously hyper-visible and anonymous, creating productive tension around presence and absence that mirrors urban invisibility.

The project includes conversations with Skid Row service organizations to ensure the work operates with community awareness and respect. This isn't about extracting images of poverty but creating space for more complex narratives about survival, dignity, and systemic failure. Documentation captures organic responses while generating video essays and photography series that examine moments of encounter.