Breaking Point
This installation touches on feelings of being on the edge of damage. With enough pressure and force, dreams and desires can be crushed or tossed aside for acceptance. In three specific areas I created a stage for representations of unease. The lighting was with tight beams to represent theater as if each presentation had its own performance. The metal showed strength and had sharp angular forms. The wood provided an organic aspect and had a worn and twisted, but stable platform. The eggs themselves represented fragility and the potential for breaking. The textural surfaces evoke a sense of struggle while the egg, with its smooth, bright surface poses dynamically and innocently awaiting the strain to take go too far.
The Journey
This installation reflects on what a journey might mean to the viewer as the elements symbolize movement with ascending forms. With the use of air and spotlighting, the almost alien forms trek into the distance during the night, catching bits of traveling light. The elements of branches and raffia ribbon resemble an organic natural landscape in motion.
12ft. x 9ft. Plywood scraps, dowels, cardboard, baling wire, branches, reflective mylar, raffia ribbon, electric fans and spray paint. This piece explores movement and linear tension.
Steel & Yarn
A site specific work, built and installed using only scrap materials. Steel pencil rod, angle iron, yarn remnants and pumice blocks.
I’m attracted to tension, but am experiencing textiles and the relationships they can have with industrial materials. Fragility in numbers can create so much strain and stress to something that seems impervious to such things.
Speakers, amp, acoustic guitar, video.
A personal exploration. Moving back in time to create through play as I did in my childhood. Destruction was motivation. I realized through the process, destruction is not always immediate, but can also be lengthy. It can take years to destruct or deconstruct both physically and mentally. Rather than trying to hold things together, sometimes it’s okay to leave behind the verbs of devastation because that’s where they belong.
Destruct/Restruct
Fractured Reflections
18inch brazed steel pencil rod cube with shattered mirror and brass wire.
This piece started when I was gifted a piece of mirror from the 60’s. Displaying the mirror to be seen from all angles was my goal. To do this, I brazed steel pencil rod in a cube shape with plenty of gold wire to accent the corners. The viewer can see not only their own reflection, but in every direction simultaneously.
Catching Light
Yarn, gaffer tape, sunlight.
This is a simple representation of my obsession of the way light travels through open channels and lands on surfaces, forever morphing. When I witnessed the display of light on multiple surfaces one day, I began mapping the patterns. Once they were mapped on the wall, I connected them to the window sill and waited exactly 24 hours and two minutes to unveil the connection between surface and window with the intense beam of sunlight.
Corrosion of Conformity
Plaster mold multiples using two part expanding foam with gold paint and baling wire.
My question was about how to map the deterioration of a specific shape and display it in chronological order. Changing the chemical mixture of expanding foam created smoothness to roughness, denseness to porous. Suspending the objects put them on display as if they were being studied in museum setting.
