Mixed media, installation, photography.

Group Exibition, “Exit Strategies”, Thursday May 15th, 5pm UCLA Broad Art Center. Everyone I love and hate, are invited. If you are in the latter don’t speak to me.

http://dma.ucla.edu/exit

black balloons hooked into my skin

fish hooks in glass jar with alcohol

going home

Current development. Ritual, process, meditation, and comfort. Balloons fishhooked into my back.

helium, balloons, hooks, wires, dirt, sun, wind, alcohol, blood.

Preface
Wood, nails, emails, audio. A conversation with strangers. It was a quiet process.

Description
“Didactic, totemic, and symbolic.”

Pronto Sabre Quién Soy or “Soon I will know who I am“, proposed an idea - a different notion of a relationship between artist and audience. From the months of February 2007 to March 2007, carefully written dialogs were posted anonymously online. Correspondence from the readers was gathered, text from their emails were printed on wooden sculptural objects, and a timeline of 30 days was composed.

A corresponding audio piece was composed. Found and environmental sounds were gathered, layered, and comprised the foundation of the piece as spoken dialog weaved in between. Additionally functioning as a timeline, the narrative appears and disappears depending on the what was said during those 30 days. Each day is two minutes.

Process played a significant part as 50 wooden, nail, objects were constructed by weather, time, dirt, dust, water, and other elements. A direct reference to African nail fetish objects played a role whether as a means of expressing my intentions of confronting “primitivist” confusions or as an indirect means of symbolically repelling elements in its conceptual setting.

Mixed Media, installation piece. A work of impulse, ritual, found objects, and chance. For a girl.

The “Composite Soldier” is a reflection on detailed personal data integrated with statistics in an attempt to both memorialize and introduce the costs of war in a more intimate context. A recreation of a domestic space as means of containing, representing, and manipulating data regarding the Iraq war and civilian deaths.

In collaboration with statistician and information specialists: Colin Rundel, Esther Nam, Danna Schacter, and Heather Crowley

African nail fetish objects. Jorge Luis Borges. Wax. Poplar wood. Ritual. Craigslist. Email transcribed onto wood. Email content translated into speech. A Mbira-like (thumb piano) musical composition. A glorious, conceptual mess. Currently in development. Proper documentation.

A book and concept study for a larger project. A collection of thoughts, craigslist correspondence, words, illustrations, and ink.

“Soon I will know who I am.”

An interactive visual performance created in Processing and with original music. The above images are concept work. Video coming soon.