process

Tree Covered in Snow

This piece reflects the nostalgia of home, family, and memories that evoke comfort. Childhood memories are often playful ranging from jumping in piles of leaves, eating cake at birthday parties, and building forts in trees. As adults we think of these childhood memories with fondness and nostalgia for days of play.  These colorful and cozy socks are reminiscent of childhood comforts and their bright colors are associated with fantasy worlds.

 

pics from the show

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Statement for Your Secrets Here

Your Secret Here is a commentary on the confidential nature of coded and encrypted communication and the growing concern for privacy and protecting our identities. This age of electronic information has created a fear of public exposure of private life, thus building distance, dishonesty and secrets among neighbors. Your Secret Here urges you to participate through writing or speaking your secrets in a confessional booth, rendering your identity temporarily vulnerable. A conflicting tension is created by both the fear and the desire of being exposed. With the popular use of online social networking venues, such as Facebook, MySpace, Post Secret and Blogspot, private lives are willingly exposed. As you participate, this tension is addressed and exploited. The spoken secrets will be aurally shredded through audio manipulation. The written secrets can either be posted on the gallery wall, or shredded and dispersed. Finally, we urge you to participate in a cathartic ritual with your shredded secrets. You are invited to walk around the space, dispersing your secrets among others. As the carefully arranged floor design is eventually swept away, so are our secrets.

 

your secrets here

 

“Your Secret Here” is an analogy of the confidential nature of coded,  encrypted and self-destructing interpersonal communication and the growing concern about privacy and protecting our identity. This interactive installation urges the viewer to participate by writing or speaking their secret. The written secret will be shredded physically, visually, and aurally evoking an act of absolution.

 In “Your secrets here” an individual is able to enter a confession booth and write down their secret. Then, the individual makes a choice; they can bring their secret to the shredder and shred away their burdens or they can publicly place there secret in the confinements of the gallery wall. If the individual shreds their secret, the secret while going through the shedder is being projected on the wall. This makes the publicizing or shredding of the secret physical but also visual. 

These photos are the interactive in process. 

The Kaleidoscope in Washington Square Park 

      Fluorescent lights of many colors to the interior walls, ceilings, and floor of the Washington Square Park monument. The lights would be solar powered. The insulation will come on at night and will be motion activated to change colors and schemes briefly and randomly to stimulate the person who walks through. 

      The wash monument serves as the gateway between two parts of the city uptown and down. It is the Mecca of the down town area, as a result as people walk through they pass from the business life to the art/creative life. When we make transitions in life we experience a rift like a kaleidoscope of non linear colors, the time of unrest isn’t logical and it shouldn’t be. My piece highlights the Washington Park Monument as a gateway in the city between the creative and linear ways moreover the childish escape of a simple pleasure that can be associated with a transition period that has and requires no meaning but escapism.