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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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Thin Air
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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Making Room
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 an agitating, but a beautiful visual manifestation of interdependence. While activating the…
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Made Up
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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More Than Happy
More Than Happy, 2015paper, paint, water, motor, fan, ledge/surface (site specific)
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Vice Versa
Vice Versa, 2013site specificred 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 Edythe Broad…
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Swarm
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 pieces of thread occasionally holding a bit of lead and black wax. As…
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Maybe it’s supposed to
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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Breathing Room
A full room installation in which piles of soap bubbles accumulate from removed knots in the wooden floor animating inaccessible spaces while giving the viewer room to contemplate poetic depth in architecture. All “action” in the room comes from the negative spaces including the air flow, lighting and the soap bubbles from the knots in…
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My Pleasure
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 fragile. At the same time, soap bubbles appear and collect around a hole in the floor; a miniature black object swings…