false starts and close calls
Sometimes we talk about the weather... (2009)
Screen-printed silk on stretchers, blue bulbs, cords, paper parachutes, wire, thread.
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
False Starts and Close Calls: Misguided objects (blindfold)
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
This blindfold/harness could literally support a body’s weight. It was anchored to steel beams in the ceiling by means of a garage door spring and grappling hooks.
Feather Leather (2009)
Rubber-coated acrylic on canvas, thread.
False Starts and Close Calls (Installation Shot)
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely and poetically based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
Misguided object (Umbrella)
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely and poetically based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
At one point I jumped off of the roof of my parent’s house. Holding an umbrella and
wearing a pair of roller skates, I succeeded, but the umbrella failed to serve its function.
This is what happens when elements of the air meet elements of the ground. This is
the shifting of a parody. When a circus freak show meets a romantic comedy. This is
that uncomfortable desire to shift position. To be grounded. Grounding. Groundless.
Through objects. Through movement. Through language. This is a set of propositions.
False Starts and Close Calls (Installation View)
Rubber-coated acrylic on canvas, thread, umbrella sticks, furniture tacks, electrical tape, thread.
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
On possibility, on provocation. A celebration in a box meets the desire for control.
Remembering that desire is no longer desire if you achieve its object. Grasping for what
it once was, we fail in fits and starts.
Misguided object (Lamp)
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
To stand on a pedestal is to perform a series of what-ifs. Words, hints, signs, and
indications map a language of indecision. An insistence on not wanting to know or to
dictate what is coming next. The open embrace of confusion. The growth of the event of
an escape. An enterprise of hesitations.
Sometimes we talk about the weather... (detail) (2009)
Silk on stretchers, blue bulbs, cords, paper parachutes, wire, thread.
Connect the dots (2009)
Furniture tacks in wall, parachute.
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
Connect the dots (Installation View) (2009)
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.
To mimic your surroundings. To encircle yourself. To trip yourself up. To take a
diving leap. To fall. And to begin again. To be landed here calls for suspension: the
suspension of expectation, of desire, of disbelief. In these works, where action should
take place, there is practically none; that which is strange is simultaneously not strange;
and promises of conclusion lead to disappointment. This is claustrophobia in reverse,
a summoning of the ground after having already fallen. In the way that comedy does
not necessarily imply lightness, that which is not whole is not necessarily incomplete.
Yet modes of longing persist. With all of these imbalances, I am looking to achieve
distance, both near and far, of voyeurism and of surveillance, a creation of witness.
False Starts and Close Calls (Installation View) (2009)
Mixed media installation composed of a series of propositions or tableaux, all loosely and poetically based around the fallibility and failures of human flight.