Top image: installation view of a locked room with audio playing inside, Tamarus Studio, Las Vegas, NV. Bottom: Self-Portrait in XO Karaoke, Las Vegas. Below is the recording of the entire set; all songs regarding being lonely/alone, performed in seclusion.
On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,
surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic
flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.
Bag Mouth (above) is a portion of a project for Tacoma's Tollbooth Gallery.
It will open November 18th.
Black Bag is an attempt to make charged scenarios with mechanized toy parts and plastic bags.
Technology and instinct (fear, aggression, care, the search for food) are intertwined in a relationship that is complex and exciting to me. I don't know why my T.V. works better when I hit it, but it does. Focusing my research on animal models offers a critical distance to engage with these questions. Animals are often regarded as living machines that use neurons instead of electronic components to create complex situations. To me this belief, raises as many questions about humans as it does animals.
Some of the pirated machines in Black Bag were originally intended to imitate humans, some animals, and some are undecided (Elmo?). By veiling the toys in plastic bags, I am striving for visceral responses to entirely manufactured, mechanical scenes.
If you look very carefully on the bridge, you can see the peregrine falcon I am trying to befriend.
from the press release for icebox contemporary:
