2012
drawings
ink and acrylic on paper
In part a formal challenge to render the ephemerality of smoke and ash in line, this project is an ongoing enquiry into pressure, change, cataclysm and consequence, and a study of natural phenomena on a global scale, focusing on historic and recent eruptions in the Philippines, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan and Italy.
2005
9-panel painting
ink and acrylic on paper and wood
Dolphinhotel’s structure comes from a Scandinavian postcard of a time-lapsed arc of the midnight sun in 9 slivers, the sun mirrored in the sea below. The foreboding black ornamentation is a stylized version of the Madonna Inn, an odd hotel in San Luis Obispo that is something like my spiritual home. The 24 inset circle illustrations rise and set across the piece, mirroring one another.
The title refers to a hotel that appears in two Haruki Murakami novels, but this piece is not a book illustration. It’s more about trying to tap into that indefinable, weird, murky strangeness that liminal spaces like novels and hotels provide.
2005
video and installation
Richmond Art Center
For only one summer every 33 years, the legendary, enchanted, unmoored Chicksilog Island drifts into San Francisco Bay, and anchors itself near Point Richmond. The devastating women of the island are known for their fierce warrior strength and romantic beauty, their deep fondness for all things orange, and their mild derangement. Unique aspects of island culture include decision-making by tribal spelling bee, and conflict resolution through flipflop-on-a-stick battles. In a gesture of gracious goodwill to the people of Richmond, the Chicksilogs shared their private universe of femininity in an effervescent adventure installation of video and murals chronicling the exploits and foibles of their simple island culture.
2005
TRT 5:00 min
two-monitor/dual projection piece
Left: a tropical setting where the artist slaps at imaginary mosquitoes, then scratching at bugbites obsessively, before finally obliterating herself with insect repellent. Right: a time-lapse shot of a mosquito coil (an incense-like repellent) burning down to nothing but ashes.
A study in self-defeating paranoia, and mythologies of safety and protection: the unseen things that we try to protect ourselves against are nowhere near as dangerous or toxic as the things we use to protect ourselves with.
2000-2004
drawings, performance
150+ drawings made over 4 years of week faculty meetings at the high school Wofford worked at. The meetings were often long and dreadful: coffee as symbol of energy and relief became the dominant motif in the drawings. Slides of the drawings were later employed in art history “lectures” at the school, addressing its unique history and melodramas, the inherent oppression of the “staff meeting” model, and drawing as an act of resistance and dissent.
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