NC, United States
As an installation artist I create a world for the viewer to enter - a space in which familiar objects provoke a sense of the unfamiliar. I use these objects to create a language, tell a story and build a world.
The objects I use in my work are living entities to me. I select ones that are filled with a vital energetic quality and retain an intimate sense of human touch. I rescue many from trash piles or flea markets. I bring them home and watch how they communicate with other old things in my studio. Sometimes they laugh at each other, sometimes they scream at each other. But, ultimately, in some definitive, yet inexplicable way, certain of these particular old things request to be joined together. So I grant their request. Later… I find a space for them to inhabit as an installation family.
It is a labor of love.
Description: Baggage was a site-specific installation created in 2002 for the Accessibility Sumter Exhibition, Sumter, SC.
Baggage inhabited a small room with a broken elevator and peeling paint in an unused Main St. building. The elevator and the textured history of the room evoked thoughts of the past, lost choices, and future changes. Objects used in the installation included old chairs, suitcases, feathers, broken mirrors, chestnut burs and such. It could be about sitting in one place and watching the world go by. In a way it’s about stopped time. A chair and suitcase together, as one, are contradictory –one has a static nature, the other dynamic.
- Date Created: March 17, 2011
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Categories: Installation
