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INSTALLATION
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CO INCIDENCE
Co Incidence is a site-specific installation and drawing set that references the balancing point. A vague notion, the balancing point or place in the middle, the meeting of the opposites is described by philosopher and psychotherapist, Carl Jung, as the place within the mind where one can become aware of the self as having dualities and experience them simultaneously. The simultaneous recognition for the self as dark and light, as chaos and order, etc. brings into play a balanced state of mind. Exploration of this concept through psychotherapy and further study brought about a great sense of healing for the artist in the wake of a family tragedy. This personal awareness and the experience of a rainbow, a coincidence of opposites, inspired this installation. The horizontal rainbow band extends into all visual space of a public cafe. The referenced horizontal plane lends grounding energy while the iconic rainbow color grouping lends an uplifting energy. Co Incidence of opposites. Self reflection - two self portraits drawn with rainbow gradient skin tone reference the artist's recognition of self balancing through the concept of "Coincidence of the opposites."
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TINNIENT CAMPANA
Tinnient Campana refers to the proliferation of ring tones without bells in modern culture. The bell itself, like Latin and other obsolete forms of communication have evolved, is gradually becoming a lesser known object or tool for communication. This sculptural installation of 99 bells engages the viewer's own sensory knowledge and curiosity. To ring a bell is intuitive despite the Bell's ongoing antiquity and gradual obsoletion. Lovely in tactile forms and unique resonances, these bells were individually formed - handcrafted fabrication, antiquated object and outmoded status contrasting our dear cell phones. Tinnient Campana literally means "ring the bell" and our unknowing of that meaning points to contemporary hesitancy in reaching for the bell with intent to ring it. Conversely, there is subtle intuition and tactile knowledge of the instrument. The spatial relationship one has when near a bell can be magnetic as we are drawn to hear its tone and resonance. In all instances of this installation, each bell is completely unique and offers the classically peaceful experience of hearing sound, feeling subtle vibration and encountering a visual syncopation. -
M I L K
M I L K is a diptych installation using approximately 400 repurposed milk jugs collected from a coffee shop in Denver, CO. Thousands of cut plastic tabs, result in a texture and luminance representing the original containers' purpose and the cafe's daily productivity over 3 months. Each square foot of these 4' x 8' panels represents an average day's worth of milk consumption at the cafe. On a grand scale, M I L K glorifies milk as it is one of America's favorite beverages - aesthetically beautiful and luminous; symbolizing life-giving sustenance; and paralleling our addiction to coffee, backing the constant work ethic of our society. The material for this installation was generated by the people in the space it originally inhabited. M I L K could be recreated indefinitely in any coffee house in the United States as the byproduct of a cultural norm made into a residual, visual representation. -
PROGRESS REPORT
Progress Report reuses the paper that Taliesin Architects and Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture apprentices use and then discard (normally to be recycled). Addressing themes of creative process, accumulation, visual documentation, and recycling, I reused this paper to create a visible residue or texture of the creative processes in the studio environment. This work is to be a build up of texture, much like lichen or mold, on one of the studio walls made by weaving and repeating torn or cut fragments of printed work (work in progress, misprinted work, early drafts, etc.) that in any way represents the creative process in architecture. Below, documentation for creating Progress Report over 3 days.