Installations


Sewn paper drawing (framed in aluminum and plexiglass)
12 inches wide x 12 inches long x 4 inches deep, 2005

Phototactic Behavior in Sewn Slides, 2004:

I had a collection of slides that had been taken to document a film loop. A lot of the slides were blurry or incomplete and therefore unusable, so I created a new piece from the rejected slides. I sewed onto the slides with a sewing machine, using two different kinds of thread. When the sewn slides are projected, the pattern of the thread and the holes left by the sewing needle become the foreground imagery. The fan of the slide projector blows the thread which causes an unusual kind of animation, and the projector's automatic focus struggles to focus on the 3 dimensional thread which hangs in front of and behind the slides. The title of the piece refers to the response of object to machine: phototaxis is the movement of an organism or a cell toward or away from a source of light. During the installation, each sewn slide is projected for ten seconds onto a large projection screen such that the images are sized 15 x 12 feet. The slide projector runs in a continuous loop.

Artforum.com review of "Phototactic Behavior in Sewn Slides"  Dec. 2006
"A Fold in the Fabric" catalog text by Sara Reisman New York: LMAK Projects, 2007