Everything, All At Once, Forever, 2011
Installation comprised of 16 sculptures; each made out of plastic debris (PET plastic), rivets, tinted polycrylic, and mica powder. Approximately 3,000 plastic bottles, and 400 caps were used in this installation.
Work currently on view at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.
Curated by Dr. Rima Girnius
Sponsored by Iowa American Water
(titles link to individual sculptures)
Up Drop
52 Hertz: Unique song: 7 billion humans each has a different iris & thumbprint
Synesthesia: Perception, aberrations, musical, sensory, mysterious connections
Ganglia: Nerve bundles, centers, sensitivity, clusters
Chromophore: Molecular structure of color
Isla: Each human, like an island, tender, strong and complete
Hesperus: Other planets, we are not alone, perspective, no shadows without light
Kardia: Heart, life forming, essence
Kermit: Humor + humility + childhood
Ambrotos: “Elixir of life”, liquid, appetite
Midas: Greed + wisdom
Oleum: Oil
Orbis: Cycles: change is constant
Madhu: Immortality + ritual + biological diversity + pollination
Spore: Reproduction + resilience, the desire to couple
Verity: Truth
Everything, All at once, Forever, I hope gives passage into a unique song I hear in my head when I consider existence and make art. Like the story of the 52 Hertz whale, a unique frequency, this work serves as a testimonial to individuality and harmony. In my studio, I always try to embrace the aberration, as being an artist is being an aberration, an eternal outcast amongst outcasts. One who cultivates sensitivity as strength, one who takes the responsibility to recognize mysterious connections. Why is it when I pluck my left eyebrow I always sneeze? The nerve bundles that give us our sensory abilities to perceive reality, color, music, light, pain and pleasure, how do they function? How do our operating systems work? Without batteries, moving around in space. We are tender yet strong, supporting vast individual ecosystems -- like the unique bacteria that exists only in human belly buttons and is different on each of us. Our lives, our childhoods, our experiences, our need for humor for survival - our appetites. How can we best learn from our mistakes and share our wisdom despite existing on a swirling massive orb in space - careening who knows where? Spinning, like whirling dervishes in this romantic never ending dance that is life.