Text-Based Installations
1 of 3 — Site-Specific, New York City, in 2017 and 2018.
Installation view, Some Feelings And Thoughts I’ll Have Any Second, 2017 New York TOAF Art Fair, pop-up flash install, paper, ink, video, performance. 256 statements, questions, colors — showing what occurs when the artist is hypomanic (mild mania). All text conceived in a total of just 3 minutes real-time. 12 feet x 8 feet x 8 feet.
Installation view, trialogical conversation between viewer, text, and abstraction, New York, 2021.
Night view, Some Feelings And Thoughts I’ll Have Any Second, 2017 New York.
Both pieces in the dialogical installation were slowly deconstructed by the artist over the course of the four day installation until they were no longer in comprehensible cognitive, emotional, or visual dialogue.
Initial pop-up view, Some Feelings And Thoughts I’ll Have Any Second, 2017 New York TOAF Art Fair.
Fourth Study For The New American Flag (left) and Just Who Has The Illness Of The Mind (right), Guest Artist, 2018 New York TOAF Art Fair, mixed media. Example of the artist’s dialogical installs (dialogue between two pieces, often different, here text and shape), 10 feet x 8 feet x 8 feet.
2 of 3 — Proposed site-specific and/or public art.
I Was Supposed To Keep You Safe, 2022, text installation, words and photograph by artist, imagined here conceptually at approximately 15 feet tall … c/o ENGAGE Projects Gallery Chicago.
No Republic Is Inevitable, conceived 2019, site and dimensions variable including projection.
White Extremists Don’t Get Time And Their Terror Will Be Televised, conceived 2018, proposed series of constitutional law-related text statements for subway screens in New York City.
3 of 3 — Detail view. 256 text elements.
Near view, Some Feelings And Thoughts I’ll Have Any Second, 2017 New York. The experience of the viewer standing close to the intersection of the two 12 foot high walls is meant to provide a semblance of the sometimes overwhelming thoughts and feelings during hypomania by reference to iconic work by Maya Lin