Installation Art
All installation projects from the fall semester of 2022
Pillory
September 2022. An oversized statement on the paradox of art-making as both attention-seeking and profoundly humiliating. The pillory was built to fit me (6’2”) and I made sure it would stand out by painting the edges with glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint. I put no statement with the installation and it stayed on the quad for all students and passers-by to engage with
I started off with approximately 80 dollars worth of wood from Home Depot (please sponsor me)
The first step was building the supports for the pillory
Next I used a special drill bit to drill through both support beams so that the pillory could open and close. I cut holes in my 2x10s for my head and hands with a jigsaw. This was all really fun and as you can tell I was not overly concerned with precision at any point in the process.
Testing it out in the woodshop!
The next step was to prime the wood for painting and weatherproofing.
I painted the pillory mostly black and used glow in the dark paint for the edges so that the pillory would stand out. The glow-in-the-dark paint really glowed well when there was a bit of light shining on it, as you can see in this photo!
Installation site of the pillory: Harpswell quad, (Bowdoin college senior housing hub)
Someone's been naughty!!
demonstrating the pillory's open/close function
Mobile
September 2022. In this installation I constructed a mobile of elements symbolically related to time and how it is measured. These symbols were comprised from found, purchased, and constructed elements. Individual objects were connected with wires, a limited color palette, and the subtle movement and constant transformation of the objects’ arrangement in space.
City
Final Installation project, collaboration with the brilliant Carl Williams. A mixed-media, mixed-scale, mixed-everything imaginary city.
Front view
Window detail
Painted wall
Mixed fabric, cardboard, and painted styrofoam "bricks" and patterns
In process
Early Process
Figuring stuff out late at night
Do You
November 2022. Torn and pasted canvas, collage, screen printing, nails, ink, acrylic paint, video projection, collaged audio. An exploration of identity and artistic originality as a complex assemblage of internal and external influences. While the repetition of the words “Do You” reinforces the pressing artistic instinct to be original, the patched-together design and collaged photographs serve as a reminder that any definition of self— artistic or otherwise— is a construction built partially on the influence of others in our environment.
