NOTHING TO DO WITH WIZARDS
O'Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, 2010

A site specific installation of six text works in silver free-hand hand-cut adhesive vinyl.

Installation view
GALAXY
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl
MY DEAD GRANDMOTHER SAT ON A COUCH OCCUPIED BY A FEW OTHER DEAD WOMEN IN (SOME KIND OF) A WAITING ROOM. SHE SEEMED HAPPY BUT DISTRACTED. ONE OF HER FRIENDS ASKED ME WHO WOULD TAKE CARE OF MY GRANDMOTHER'S CAT NOW THAT SHE WAS DEAD. I SCRATCHED THE CHEEK OF THE CAT. ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CAT'S MUZZLE, IN PLACE OF ORDINARY WHISKERS, THERE WAS A CONSTELLATION OF ACTUAL STARS. EACH CONSTELLATION WAS AN EXACT MIRROR OF THE OTHER. I WAS A LITTLE SAD. MY GRANDMOTHER NEVER HAD CAT.
Installation view
GALAXY
SPOOL
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl
THE CONGEALED MANIFESTATION OF WORDS SPOKEN OVER A LIFETIME IN THE FORM OF A KNOTTED SPOOL OF SILVER GREY TREES AT THE HEIGHT OF A TALL CEILING
BIRDS
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl
THE BLUE-BLACK BIRDS THAT FORM THE RIM OF SPACE
GLOW
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl
A GLOW FROM WITHIN A BODY

A SPARK AND A FURTHER SPARK WITHIN
OCTOPUS
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl
WHILE YOU WERE SPEAKING I IMAGINED MYSELF WEARING A CROCHETED OCTOPUS COSTUME
SKY
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl
I LIKE THE SKY
OCTOPUS
2010
Text in silver hand-cut adhesive vinyl.
Variable.
text:
WHILE YOU WERE SPEAKING I IMAGINED MYSELF WEARING A CROCHETED OCTOPUS COSTUME
SPOOL
GLOW
SKY
SKY