Re-EMERGENCE @ the Morris Graves Museum of Art. 2021.
16 artists were selected from an applicant pool to recieve a grant and build work for an exhibition about our (first) year in quarantine. Ironically the day I delivered my work everything shut down again due to the Delta spikes. The museum cancelled any public celebration but the work was displayed for 3 months with regular museum hours of operation.
Outer -Roominations was an experiment in how to revive the idea of an outdoor arts festival in the time of COVID. I was onboarded in the early stages to create a site specific work for an outdoor room on 13 acres of hillside trails at Table Bluff in Humboldt County California in May 2021. It was weird and wonderful.
The 100 houses project was my solution to the objective.
It was important to me to use waste materials, left-overs from previous projects and used items that I have found, purchased and harvested second hand – many parts have had many lives and uses before this moment.
We are all living with the reality of houses and houselessness all around us. We experience it differently and have many ideas on the subject. Forms are pushed in triplicate, funds are funneled and diverted on this issue. Meanwhile so many people are still on the streets. Seems like more every day. I talk to some, fear a few, try to help but feel helpless most days.
I imagine what some people would want in an ideal home and think about what that means, non-traditional housing from non-traditional materials has been of interest but out of my reach, how then can we make that attainable. Talk amongst yourselves about this. It is not simple- but it is possible
by reqest a piece origina;;y designed for an indoor setting was located onto the lawn area for the event, we utilized a lawn tractor to get it to location. Aquatic Inclinations… in the meadow on the bluff. originally built in 2019, reimagined for 2021