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Pinning Down the Dust
This installation is the first piece I made after
moving into a large warehouse studio in Providence. The building
was an old mill, and the space had been previously used for making
carpets. The space had huge dust-rats, balls of dust, hovering over
the floor and as a response to the never-ending task of cleaning,
I began to pin down the dust with small metal thumbtacks and in
the photograph there are about 1000 pins. I anticipated that the
pins would continue to gather dust, over time.
While pinning down the dust, I noticed how the
pins, metal thumb tacks with a flat heads on short stems, reflected
the light from the window at certain angles. While photographing
the piece, my perception of the pins became to be more about them
reflecting the light and she bent them towards the window. The little
heads on their stems, are reminiscent of Heliotropes; flowers
that turn towards the sun looking for sunlight.
In Between the Floorboards/Ajar
My artistic endeavor is to bring attention and to visualize that
which is invisible, or in my opinion neglected. During my investigation
of the floor I discovered that the most neglected place in a building
is the space between the floorboards, where the dirt collects, and
I used thin glass thread to bring beauty to it. The piece speaks
quietly, and is visible only at certain angles when the glass is
catching the light from the windows or the half open door in Ajar.
Because the glass is resting below the surface of the floor one
is able to walk on it without breaking the delicate threads.
Floorgraph
In this three dimensional drawing I used a carpenter’s
chalk-line tool across the length and the width of the floor. The
chalk is aligned with the studs of chipboard partitions, which divide
the space, and superimposes a grid onto the floor. The intention
was to highlight the juxtaposition of the temporary, low-budget
partitions, with the old, permanent architecture. The grid revealed
that the old floors are slightly uneven and sagged in certain places.
The drawing can be interpreted as a topographical mapping of the
floor – a landscape within the architecture.
Pinning Down the Sunlight
In this installation I traced the sunlight as
it moved through the space from about nine in the morning and until
it disappeared at one in the afternoon. I attempted to catch the
reflected sunlight, with small metal thumbtacks, but failed inevitably
because the sun moved too fast. The piece speaks of the impossibility
of stopping time.
In my investigations I often find myself trying
to capture a passing moment or the fleeting time, in what is obviously
an impossible task. However, the residue, the product of my artwork,
is catching something if only a trace from that fleeting moment.
In Pinning Down the Sunlight the pin’s points
can be regarded as thresholds, each containing the notion of "now."
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