Project Type: Wofford

December 29, 2005

dolphinhotel

2005
9-panel painting
ink and acrylic on paper and wood

The title refers to a hotel that appears in two Haruki Murakami novels, but this work is not an illustration of either. Its structure references a Scandinavian postcard of a time-lapse 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 emblem of the Madonna Inn, a mysteriously odd California hotel. The 24 inset circle illustrations rise and set across the piece, mirroring one another.

dolphinhotel

dolphinhotel detail

December 29, 2005

Chicksilog

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. In a gesture of gracious goodwill to the people of Richmond, the the devastating women of the island share their private universe of femininity in an effervescent installation of video and murals chronicling the exploits and foibles of their island culture.

Chicksilog promotional materials

Native Chicksilog in island habitat

Chicksilog battle

Chicksilog drama

Chicksilogs

Chicksilog cuisine

Chicksilog mural

Chicksilog mural + video

Chicksilog mural

Chicksilog mural + videos

December 28, 2005

Fumakilla

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.

December 29, 2004

Coffee Drawings

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.

Coffee Drawing lecture

Coffee Drawing

Coffee Drawing