Everyone has an interior landscape, except me.

video / sculpture installation, In collaboration with Joseph White, 2019

We perceive the world in terms of solid, tangible objects, but as the physicist Carlo Rovelli eloquently writes, “even the things that are most “thinglike” are nothing more than long events.”

“Everyone has an interior landscape, except me” is comprised of 2 video/ sculpture installations. Central to the project is the exploration of impermanence. The sculptures in each of the installations fall apart, melt, dissolve over the duration of the exhibits. The videos were shot in the Great Basin, Utah and Istanbul, Turkey in 2018 and were influenced by Virginia Woolf’s writings about wandering: going out into the world without a plan, getting lost, gaining a sense of freedom, and seeing what is found- an internal/ external landscape. Even though these videos/ still images were a product of pure happenstance: randomly turning off onto a dirt road in the middle of the desert, the timing of jellyfish collectively mating coinciding with my walking down a dock just outside of Istanbul: what I consistently chose to record had a pattern. When I picked up a camera to document a moment or event, it was the body feminine. The more I went out into the world, the more I turned the world back towards me. An external representation of an internal dialogue.

PART I

THE SCULPTURES: 

The videos are projected onto 2 large geometric, suspended shapes, each 8’ x 4’: one horizontal, the other vertical. The sculptures are made from layers of large sheets of glassine and tracing paper, attached to suspended wood slats. These sheets form what appear to be two 3-dimensional objects, floating in space. Over time, the sheets eventually detach, falling to the ground, forming a crumpled landscape, and disrupting the perception of solidity and permanence. 

Everyone has an interior landscape, except me.

PART II

video / sculpture installation, 2020

THE SCULPTURES:

Videos of underpasses shot in the Great Basin, Utah, are projected onto disposable cardboard structures approximately 20” W x 17” H x 5” D each. Materials: Recycled compacted cardboard, paper, wire, tape.