These are temporal sculptures that use various materials and tension to remain standing.
Computer Mouse Conference
was thrilled to be invited to create a work for the first Computer Mouse Conference put together by Ashley Jane Lewis and Emma Rae Bruml Norton.
created a wearable mouse made of a glove filled with sand and lead weights to simulate a heavy therapy blanket or the comfort of a human hand. In this simple work I process the frustrations of the oft cold, lonely, laborious cyberspace we inherited as well as the occasional togetherness that can be found in and around it if we try.
This conference included a group show and discussion panel about humans and tech and all the poetic, tragic, absurd, and concerning things that can transpire and be observed in this space. Topics ranged from an analysis of the anthropology of the office to visions of humanoid and collaborative computer mice.
Below is Allan Wexler using a brick mouse🧱to build a wall in the virtual space, which is, in part, what inspired this project.
Stare-down With Capitalism and other web edits
original link to marina Abramovic article
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/wait-why-did-that-woman-sit-in-the-moma-for-750-hours/259069/
Movable el wire sculpture protoypes
These are miniature clay and EL wire prototypes of larger scale sculptures that will be made with thicker fluorescent tubing and possibly cement or a hard clay-like substance instead of fragile clay.
Sound Shape Skeleton in preparation for paper mache
Originally this steel wire structure (3 x 2 x 2 feet) it was athe skeleton of a sculpture but I left is a work on it’s own. This ended up as an exercise of drawing in space.
Fresh pile of pool pipe (It's Garbage! Series)
Garbage item 1
Fresh pile of found pool pipe // 2018 3x3x2’. 4” di, 36’ l.
“The dyadic alterations of leaf and air make the frond shimmer and move, even when it stays still.”
- Elaine Scarry on the beauty of palms in “On Beauty And Being Just”.
The striations of this pool coil by the garbage caught my eye. The mesmerizing black slivers between white rings were like the fronds of a palm that Elaine Scarry talks about in her “On Beauty and Being Just”. I lugged it home to wash it and twist it into knots. It turned out just like I imagined. The huge knot holds itself in place but the lines are in constant motion both in the way the tube bends and in the optical effect of the stripes on the circumference.
Purpose:
I'm experimenting with using found and discarded materials in creating objects with interesting textures that can be touched and will eventually all come together in a tactile sound sculpture garden/playground that will serve the general public as well as those who are hard of seeing.
Note:
Upon seeing this documentation several people told me they thought this was rendering in a 3d program, but it’s really just an analogue optical trick. It’s a neat to look at in person and get lost in making sense of it, following its curves and seeing it appear to animate with just a slight movement of the body.
Sound Payground shape prototypes in white, clay and wire
Early playful "sketches" and prototypes of enclosure shapes to use in future physical computing projects.
