SGS/HED series
Solidified Gesture Specimen/ Hypered Experience Device Series
I address the complexities of inner personal and social interactions conditioned by the corporal body. I explore the absurdity of our attempts to express, perceive, communicate and understand. I think of the pieces I create as body extensions that display a psychological condition, and as projections of mental habits and bodily knowledge.
Combining the conventions of fine and applied art allows me to create objects that communicate ideas through their implied use. I rely on the suggested function within the pieces to create ambiguous tension between enhancing and prohibiting, amplifying and restricting. By presenting the object as a residual trace of the body on an actual scale I want the viewer to mentally enter the work with their own body and relate to the futility of the human effort. The objects look like what it feels like to desperately want to communicate and not be able to. To attempt to understand and fail. To scrutinize something so closely the effort becomes absurd. To feel urgently vulnerable to the point of becoming aggressive.
I envision these pieces as solidified gestures, as physical reminders of a hypered experience, and as remnants of our ways of operating in the world. These objects have a sense of being both for and of the body and have both artifact and specimen qualities. I strive to create objects that are ambiguous in their nature, their function hindered, their use frustrated and their origin unclear. I seek to make fictions that precipitate out of our own reality and experiences, rendering them as uncertain and unreliable.
25 images, 2001-2006
SGS/HED: ear pieces - 2, 3, and 5, 2001-2003
SGS/HED: eye piece-1. latex; nylon, food coloring, 4” x 11’ x 12”, 2001- 2003
SGS/HED: eye piece-1. latex; nylon, food coloring, 4” x 11’ x 12”, 2001- 2003
SGS/HED: hand piece-2. latex, steel pins, food coloring, 2” x 5” x 8”, 2002
SGS/HED: red hand piece-3. latex, steel pins, food coloring, 2 x 6 x 7 ½”, 2002
SGS/HED: red hand piece-3. latex, steel pins, food coloring, 2 x 6 x 7 ½”, 2002
SGS/HED: hand piece-glove-1. stainless steel, 2” x 8” x 12”, 2002
SGS/HED: copper hand piece-4 and hand piece-glove-1, installation view, 2002
SGS/HED: copper hand piece-4. copper, patina, paper clay, 4” x 11” x 12”, 2002
SGS/HED: white eye piece-4. latex, plastic, balloons, paint, 4 ½” x 11” x 21”, 2002
SGS/HED: white extensions-1,3,4. plastic, balloons, sponge, rubber, 5” x 5” x 30”, 2002
SGS/HED: white mouth piece-2. foam rubber, plastic, balloons, thread, detail, 2002
SGS/HED: white mouth piece-2. foam rubber, plastic, balloons, thread, 11 ½” x 11 ½” x 24”, 2002
SGS/HED: white mouth piece-2. foam rubber, plastic, balloons, thread, detail, 2002
SGS/HED: white mouth piece-4. foam rubber, plastic, balloons, steel pins, 3 ½” x 3 ½” x 15”, 2002
SGS/HED: white mouth piece-3. foam rubber; plastic, balloons, thread, 5 ½” x 5 ½” x 7 ½”, 2002
SGS/HED: black piece-1. foam rubber, plastic, balloons, thread, 5” x 5” x 16 ½”, 2005
GGS/HED: black piece-3. foam rubber; copper; powder coat; balloons, 3” x 3” x 15’, 2006
Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics Devices, installation view, 2006
Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics Devices, installation view, 2006
SGS/HED series, installation view, 2002
SGS/HED series, installation view, 2002
SGS/HED series, installation view, 2002
Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics, installation view, 2006
Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics, installation view, 2006