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Artifacts from a Eventual Past
A sense of restlessness and a manic work ethic drives my search to find the revelatory in the ordinary. The materials come to me via epiphany and are chosen for their metaphorical resonance. A recent study shows people are happiest in in-between moments--picking up mail from the post office box, filling the gas tank, stopping to pet a dog at the corner deli. My work identifies the material substance of these moments and celebrates their nobility. Notebook reinforcement labels and security envelopes are the cumbersome detritus of daily life, yet they safeguard privacy and preserve the otherwise transient life of the documents that define us. Paper maps point to places lived and traveled and suggest new paths even as they themselves have evaporated into cyberspace. Often the materials I choose have a poignancy for their inevitable obsolescence.
Recent installations use the data-protection patterning (security patterning) and windows of security envelopes to create site-specific installations and objects for domestic living. These envelopes have flooded my mailbox as I have become part of the American credit debacle, borrowing and buying on hopes of eventual liquidity. The insistent and illusory offers of a better life are embodied in these beautiful envelopes.
I begin by making drawings of envelope interiors, replicating their anonymous printed patterns and forms with careful delineation. I collect the patterns (data protection patterning) and reconfigure and collage the patterning to create wallpapers that the drawings will be mounted on, and furniture and clothing that reconsider the objects that are the embodiment of our security.
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