If Walls Could Talk
A wall is constructed to act as container for forms, events, and interactions inside. An entire history is developed inside a space you walk into – and a history was unknown to me before I entered Ross Camp. On the surface of a wall, on an area that measured 7 feet, 2 inches by 10 feet, 10 inches, I created a drawing that would be developed into a stop-motion animation. Over many days and drawing sessions, I created movement through my drawn marks. Each mark I made on the wall was one that could not be fully removed; the charcoal acted as a marker for past actions, and I adapted to it, and built onto it. There was a rhythm of the back and forth between drawing surface and camera in an attempt to document the physical changes. Assembling the photos together was like stitching together a memory for reflection; unclear of events passed but searching for a resolution for the future. Each of us carries our experiences with us. We are all built on our past actions, thoughts, and feelings. We each have created an enriched history and trace of being in this world. We are each so focused on our own individual histories that we rarely realize how much we are intimately bound to each other, like ligaments that connect separate bones to each other underneath our skin within our own bodies. These connections we know exist and make our physical existence possible, but they occur underneath the surface of our own forms, quietly and constantly linking and creating movement.
The Space Between Two Frames (If Walls Could Talk)
Stop-motion animation, 4 minutes and 15 seconds, originally drawn and projected at 7’2.5”x10’5”, 2017, Ross Camp, Lafayette, IN
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Witness Me
The installation is comprised of over three hundred unique handmade books. Each represents a moment, a fragmentary thought, seconds of experience that influenced my life. My interest in the relationship between the inner and outer self is realized through the books - as they represent a physical body for the ephemeral experiences constantly remembered and replayed in my mind. I want my own physical presence in the books’ creation to be visceral. How do others witness you daily, and you them?
Witness Me, Tippecanoe Arts Federation Museum, Lafayette, IN, 2017
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Coming Upon Something
Light is an intangible force that affects the space. Every step or movement another makes in the exhibition changes the experience for another. Public interaction in the world; whether it’s through spoken word and relationships, or physical actions committed, has a ripple effect of unknown proportions by the actor. The inner sanctum, physically blocked in the space, represents the inner or private self or mindset that everyone has: that small voice in the head where one’s most intimate thoughts or feelings are had that aren’t shared with anyone. Discover, come upon an unknown force.
Mixed Media, 2013
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