Since 2000, I have been making large scale installations made mainly of textile materials. I see these installations as drawings in space with a prevailing sense of line and color. Integral to the work is the idea of sprawl-stratified systems of parts that have “run amok.” The use of commonplace craft materials (such as pipe cleaners and yarn) and discarded household materials (such as dry cleaning bags and fruit nets) also help to give the work a provisional quality. Through a labor-intensive process, patches of fabric and plastic are sewn or pinned to structures made of pipe cleaners and wire. In my room-sized installation, Whorl, (which was shown at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in the summer of 2005 and at Galerie Articule in Montreal in the winter of 2006) most of the sections that made up the work were abstract and cellular, while some forms vaguely referred to architectural structures, domestic objects, and marine biology.
Ideas of permeable and mobile architecture were important in my most recent site-specific installation, Patch, which was shown at Suyama Space in Seattle, Washington from May-July 2007. Four tent-like structures in green, red, yellow/white, and blue were suspended from the twenty-two foot high ceiling with strands of pipe cleaners and yarn and weighted to the floor with lead weights. One could enter each of the structures and, while being immersed, peer out through permeable walls. Because of the patchy and translucent nature of the walls, multi-layered views of the rest of the installation were alternately obscured and revealed.
Ideas of permeable and mobile architecture were important in my most recent site-specific installation, Patch, which was shown at Suyama Space in Seattle, Washington from May-July 2007. Four tent-like structures in green, red, yellow/white, and blue were suspended from the twenty-two foot high ceiling with strands of pipe cleaners and yarn and weighted to the floor with lead weights. One could enter each of the structures and, while being immersed, peer out through permeable walls. Because of the patchy and translucent nature of the walls, multi-layered views of the rest of the installation were alternately obscured and revealed.
