Rick Dailey’s sculptures, installations, and photography investigate the historical traces of his enculturation. Starting from a realization of his own complicity and vulnerability in systems of power, Rick uses uncanny recontextualizations and defamiliarization to disrupt his deep-rooted frameworks of perception and experience. Using various media and staged environments, Rick uncovers and destabilizes his associations with seemingly banal objects and everyday realities through disarming use of humor, absurdity, symbolic gesture, and artifice. These encounters allow him to activate new meanings and forms of relationality, in order to heal and transform his experience with material culture, social structures, nature, memory, place, and time.