I obscure intimate, lived-in, concealed, and transitory spaces with the inscriptions of my secrets. On the tissue I’ve imprinted my interior noise. Here, the noise has been made material and constructive, and can be physically entered, spread out, or packed away.
Indenting something so easy to discard with tenacious interiority seems appropriate. Now that they are embedded in an easily destroyed square of cotton, I take a different kind of care with these thoughts. The ease of throwing away the tissue combined with the preserved and woven together bits of memory, guilt, worry, stress and possibility gives the structure levity, mobility, and strength.
A site-specific installation at the State University of New York at Brockport, 2022
Found suitcases and stitched-together, journaled-on facial tissues.
Found suitcases and stitched-together, journaled-on facial tissues.
Typewriter, found suitcases and stitched-together, journaled-on facial tissues.
Typewriter, found suitcases and stitched-together, journaled-on facial tissues.
A site-specific installation
Site specific installation using facial tissues that have been journaled upon, using a typewriter. Individual tissues are hand-stitched together, into quilt-like panels.
Site specific installation using facial tissues that have been journaled upon, using a typewriter. Individual tissues are hand-stitched together, into quilt-like panels.
Site specific installation using facial tissues that have been journaled upon, using a typewriter. Individual tissues are hand-stitched together, into quilt-like panels.
Site specific installation using facial tissues that have been journaled upon, using a typewriter. Individual tissues are hand-stitched together, into quilt-like panels.
Site specific installation using facial tissues that have been journaled upon, using a typewriter. Individual tissues are hand-stitched together, into quilt-like panels.
Installation shot from ‘Keeping the Thread’ at Buffalo Arts Studio, 2009.
Installation shot from ‘Keeping the Thread’ at Buffalo Arts Studio, 2009.
Embedded video installation, Chester College of New England, 2005.
Embedded video installation, Chester College of New England, 2005.