WoffleHouse

Top Floor: Spellchecker
Spelling has always had a certain kind of magical precision to me, and “spell” has a double meaning, functioning also as a form of magical incantation. I’m always interested in how language encodes meaning, depending on access. In Spellchecker I spell out significant lines and sentences as actual dialogue, as opposed to mere strings of letters and spaces. It’s a very private, hermetic language that felt right to correlate with a space made to appear like a child’s private domain.

Middle Floor: Impostor
Impostor shows a variety of characters, all saying things that indicate varying permutations of impostor phenomenon, a condition fraught with unnecessary self-doubt: it’s a syndrome that many high-achieving women and people of color tend to internalize as a sense that they don’t belong, that they’re under-qualified, frauds, impostors. This piece is situated on the middle floor, in a sort of 70’s purgatory, with foreground and background blurred alternately.

Ground Floor: Walking With Coffee
The ground floor kitchen became the exit point for a piece featuring women obsessively bustling about, clutching cups of coffee to go. It’s both funny and sad how fixated we Americans are about beverages and meals to-go: in reflecting on what seems to facilitate drive and compulsiveness, it felt appropriate to scale the absurdity of this behavior in this video.