I made a papier mache bird to watch over me while I sleep, and after I finished, I decided his name is Felipe. I finished him a few weeks ago and hung him from the ceiling. His wingspan is probably about four feet and his body is maybe 16″ long. Here’s a progress shot: I started by forming a skeleton …
The show went really well! Sorry it’s taken me so long to post. Micheline has uploaded a montage of clips from the approximately 25 minute piece onto her website, available here. I took close-up shots of all of the “Pandora’s boxes” I created (used as a metaphor for each dancer’s personal discovery and growth), and …
Micheline Heal, my friend and fellow Oberlin alumna, is choreographing a beautiful modern dance piece called “The Garden for Wayward Girls”. I am flattered that she has asked me to help her with the “static” visual elements of the show- mainly some props (a Pandora’s box for each dancer) and set pieces/ installation. It has …
Sometime shortly after Halloween last year, I decided that I HAD TO go as a deep sea diver this year. I have always thought old diving masks and diving presses (the hard-exterior type, which can go deeper underwater) are really cool-looking. There are many many different types of mask designs and breathing methods, all created …
The year of the senior studio program culminated in a thesis exhibition on April 9th, 2010. I showed work with Lucy Engleman, a sculptor and video artist. Above is our show poster, designed by Eliza Koch. Below is my artist statement for the works I’ve been creating this year. Note- if you came to the …
Here is the completed Tags piece- with me standing in it for staffage. I wanted the tags, filled with faces, to come around the viewer and feel like a hug or at least give the impression of a densely populated space. Detail of some of the paintings. I started this project in January of this …
These photos are what Fisher Gallery looked like at the start of the installation process for my senior studio exhibition. My show, titled “Perfection is a Trifle Dull” opened April 9th, 2010 (just getting up photos now though, heh) and stayed up until April 12th. This is my show partner, Lucy Engleman, and our professor …
Right now in Senior Studio I am working on making faces out of clay. Each one is about 5″ long, approximately, and is made from air-drying clay (no kiln required!). I have 11 so far and am hoping to make as many as possible out of the 50lbs of clay that I bought. For some …