Memory Pool , 2018
Memory Pool floor(detail)
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‘The Memory Pool’ is initially very personal installation about memory and gradually transformed into a ‘container’ space for audience participation. Dancers, students, teachers and friends were invited to experience the room which included a video of day and night water reflections and accompanying sound track .The audience was invited to sit on floating furniture or in the ‘water’. Some of the participants reactions were recorded and I produced a book documenting the entire installation.
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Memory Pool Installation (detail) and book
Colossal Kaleidoscope 2018
Colossal Kaleidoscope Installation
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In this “Altered Perception“ series of art works I 'm discovering how light transforms our perspectives of the physical universe.
The Colossal Kaleidoscope explores the correlation of science and art and how we process the difference between invention and creation. The kaleidoscope or teleidoscope is an invention that also creates. I’m fascinated with the recent 'proof' of the existence of black holes and explore the idea that through observation and our collective imagination, truth and fiction can meld into one. The Colossal Kaleidoscope is room-sized sculpture that engages the viewer with ever-changing, brilliant patterns of a fragmented reality. Unlike traditional kaleidoscopes and depending on its surroundings, this sculpture reflects the room and the viewer in it. Relative to its position, the patterns created are as unique as the person looking through it. I want to allow for a space that is both invented and real, where the viewer can create their own dazzling cosmos. |
Kaleidoscope (details)
Seat of Power, 2019
Reading Room Installation
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Newspapers, once vital symbols of stability, and conveyors of information or ‘truth’ are quickly disappearing, or morphing into the virtual space that we now all exist in. To speak to this, I wanted to make a piece that was about physical weight and time, in order to push back against all the instant, simulated moments that inundate our lives with newly assigned value. While the original idea was very much politically motivated by the “fake news” headlines, the material itself has a wider meaning for me as a symbol diminishing relevancy, advancing technology, money and the passage of time.
“The Seat Of Power” is a sculpture made from compressed newspaper that I collected, unfolded, stacked, sandwiched between boards, measured traced, drilled, cut into shapes, then skewered, pressed and bolted together into an object in the shape of a chair and an ottoman. It is part of a larger, interactive installation called 'Reading Room' that I am currently creating about history, ideas of lasting power and where we place value. “The Seat of Power” is made of paper and will certainly disintegrate before long as it is after all a “fake chair”… what of all the compressed truths inside it ? |
Seat of Power (detail)
Rosy Future, 2018
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Conceived in November of 2018 in response to all the women running for congress in the midterm election, Rosy Future was an election action and an exploration of the power of womanhood.
Having made a proposal for an outdoor “Pussy Hat” sculpture the previous year I discovered the shade cloth that is used in this piece. Intrigued by the intersection of textiles and politics, I crocheted the dress form of “Rosy Future” as a signpost and monument to the women who are finally (and again) gaining political and personal power in our society. The sculpture can be placed outdoors as the materials are weather resistant. This 60% violet shade cloth is used in greenhouses to increase growth and blooms in flowers and vegetables. “Rosy Future” can be installed indoors with actual grass sod around the base, to function as a forceful, symbolic monument. It is larger than life and hopefully inspires the audience to enact positive change for the future. I’ve added an interactive component to this piece with a “How to“ video link. Its a documentation of the process of the making of “Rosy Future” and a clear roadmap for those who would like to build their own. |
Rosy Future Alloway Gallery Installation 2019
Forest Bath Installation, 2019
Forest Bath (detail) Moss rock seating
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This installation is an enveloping montage of photographs of the forest recorded over the course of a year looking out the same window. The actual trees visible through the window flow into the forest images encircling the room like a calendar or a diary.
The center the space is filled with “moss” seating from which to view the trees in all the seasons. There is an accompanying sound track of bird and forest sounds. 
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Forest Bath (detail) "September to May "
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Voices of Trees
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Voices of Trees Installation
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I drive to my studio everyday through miles of forest, thinking about nature and the magical qualities of trees.
I am fascinated with the mysticism and spirituality of a forest, and instead of always taking, I wanted to honor and bring awareness to the trees by giving them something. Large ceramic jewels hang from the branches like natural talismans to empower and protect the trees( mostly from us). The pendants are kinetic depending on their placement and the direction of the wind. The organic shapes and colors of the giant beads suggest a history or unnamed religion so suddenly the forest becomes the setting of a mysterious performance where humans are only the observers and the trees are the silent masters. |
Voices of Trees Beads(details)