Richmond, VA
A site-responsive installation in which the artist posits four sculptures in a defunct shopping mall.
carpet, melody; voice and vacuum cleaner;
wall; drywall, nails with paint; glue;
spot and trough and tube light fictures fixed with foil and tape; removal;
melamine shleves stacked, refinished twinkly;
silverfish; song bird;
lockbox; dust bags.
Touch Your Woman
(sculpture read top-to-bottom)
Piano hinge found bent and unopenable; cotton, nettle.
Tile fragment.
Plywood face, paint sanded to mirror shine; wax and pigment (faux-alexandrite).
Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.
(sculpture read top-to-bottom)
Piano hinge found bent and unopenable; cotton, nettle.
Tile fragment.
Plywood face, paint sanded to mirror shine; wax and pigment (faux-alexandrite).
Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.
Scrying Bench: My Mother Loved Me Like a Son
Theophanic pine and steel sanded by hand to mirror finish and sealed with paste wax.
No sitting.
Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.
Theophanic pine and steel sanded by hand to mirror finish and sealed with paste wax.
No sitting.
Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.
Mirrored Fears (No. 1)
Loose fibers, feathers, and hair found on and inside the bodies of two lovers bound to wood by cotton yarn and thread.
Wax seal sealed in resin.
Wax seal sealed in resin.
Melamine and paint; found, stacked, resurfaced.
“Well, I’ve got to change my whole life now”
Metal fragment; silk, wool, and linen.
Nail and paint; found and resurfaced.
Metal fragment; silk, wool, and linen.
Nail and paint; found and resurfaced.
-Translation Gifted to artist by friend and mentor, Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn
-Excerpt of Upon the Hills of Georgia (Pushkin, 1829)
Images courtesy Josh True