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My Pleasure
My Pleasure, 2012 site specific wood, motors, cigarette, string, thread, fans, wire, soap, brown paper bag, wax My Pleasure is a site specific installation at Land of Tomorrow Gallery in Louisville, KY. Within an empty room with an old installed wooden floor, a brown paper bag extending from the wall expands and contracts creating a rhythmic crinkling sound. It mimics hyperventilation, but is also tender and…
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Maybe it’s supposed to
Maybe it’s supposed to, 2013 1×1 inch soap, water, tubing, motor, hole in the wall From a small hole in the wall (no bigger than one made by a nail or screw) soap bubbles sputter through. Almost unnoticeable, but showing potential in the unreachable spaces behind the wall.
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Swarm
Swarm, 20136x6x14 feetlead sinkers, over-the-hill birthday candle wax, thread, wire, motor, latex tubing A large, mechanized mobile created site specifically for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI that mimics the motion of a swarm of flies or bugs. A single motor slowly turns a wobbly wire apparatus which supports multiple…
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Making Room
sinkers, over-the-hill birthday candle wax, thread, wire, motors, latex tubing (site specific) Making Room was the inaugural exhibition for PAR-Projects in Cincinnati, OH. The location informs the content and form of pieces. Thirteen large mechanized mobiles mimic the motion of bugs swarming. The motion of each small piece is connected to those around them creating…
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More Than Happy
More Than Happy, 2015 paper, paint, water, motor, fan, ledge/surface (site specific)
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Thin Air
Thin Air, 2018fabric, rods, thread, spinners, wood, motor, wire The ubiquitous, relaxing and sensual action of a curtain blowing is uncannily controlled by a motor and strings. The curtain becomes a puppet, the implied breeze animatronic.
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No Vacancy
No Vacancy, 2010 site specific dehumidifier, steel bucket, single burner, motors, wood, soap, cigarette, string A smoking cigarette lays discarded, a rocking bucket sizzles away drips that fall from above, soap bubbles emerge from a knot in the wooden platform and a pull-string bounces as if it has just been tugged. The empty space and…
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Tight Spots
Tight Spots, 2021towels, motors, rods, tubing(site specific) Humor and empathy meet in Tight Spots as each small towel sculpture toils away, “head down” working endlessly in an absurd yet relatable performance. As each piece in the installation works individually, yet in a similar manner, relationships are formed through space. The overtone is humorous, the undertone…
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Made Up
Made Up, 2015site specifictable bases, motors, wood, white table cloth Made Up is a kinetic sculptural installation in which a series of tabletops spin simultaneously referencing furniture, dance and formal gatherings while making invisible forces and air patterns visible.
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Vice Versa
Vice Versa, 2013 site specific red rubber balls, elastic string, metal arms, motors Vice Versa was a room filled with mechanized red bouncing balls attached to elastic strings hanging from turning windshield wiper motors. The motors were mounted to the 25 foot ceiling extending through the shiny, italic Zaha Hadid architecture at the Eli and…