Conditional to the Moment
2024 + 2025
Pieces of my presence, and worldly presents, make up the materials of the pieces within this collection.
It is a collection of a collection.
Worn, dirtied, stitched & scorn.
Whispering what once was,
what now is, and what may ever be.
The eleven works do not make sense, individually and as a composite, as most things do in moments of uncertainty.
An object is never solely an object, as nothing is ever just as it presents on the surface. Everything is instead a mirrored chasm, endlessly looping the inner and outer in continuous force.
Created with objects from my lively archive, and understood through the physical and metaphorical relationships which developed amongst myself, the objects, & the objects themselves.
The durability of paper, the opaque white of the glass bulb, the faint weight of the needle hooked onto a single thread.
The similarities such materials present in the (my)self. The reflections, illusions, and perceptions of ourselves which we compile and dawn on.
Yet underlying such is the natural aging which all must succumb to, and only a metaphysical form of conservation can hold taught the threads of the present self which one may everlastingly hope to retain.
As if one was an ever in weave textile, knotted to and in a symbiotic relationship with its growing archive of threads.
We hang on to hope in order to suspend forward.
We find comfort in, and ourselves recycle.
We make art with objects.
Even as conditional to the moment as ___ may be.
Pain // White Painted Plywood
MoMA PS1 Boiler Room Rock // Found MoMA PS1 Boiler Room Rock
Claes Oldenburg’s The Store Card (C.O. TSC) // Claes Oldenburg’s The Store Card from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days
Claes Oldenburg’s The Store Card (C.O. TSC) // Claes Oldenburg’s The Store Card from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days
Storm King PB&J (STK PB&J) // Peanut Butter and Jelly From Storm King Art Center
Present From the Big Apple (PFBA) // Found (Driven Over) Board, Gifted William Sonoma Wrapping Paper, White Ribbon, Apple Pin from Chelsea Flea
Foot Traffic (FT) // Paper, Tape, Foot Prints, Dirt, Fallen Hair 7 x 25 ft
Opine // Ribbon, Needles, Heart Shape Object, Paperclips, Fabric Threads, Personal Hair Locks, Silk Embroidered “S”, Blood, Paper Plane, Found Feather, Dried Flower, Wooden Flag, Broken Pearl Bracelet, Previously Used Painted Push Pins, Read Ribbon, Gold Locket
Docile // Rachel Comey Chain, LBI Shells, Oxford Shirt, Light Bulb, Rusted Truck Bit, Lace Ribbon, Musee de Rodin Post It, Birthday Present Wrapping, Black Painter Tape, Paperclip, Chicken Wire, Bakers Yarn, Broken Pearl Bracelet, Needle & Earring Backing, Gold Chain, Hex Nut, Ribbon, Paint Brush
1200-2004-2024 // Living Waters Academy T-Shirt, Heritage Auction’s Foam (Previously holding 1200 - 1700 BC copper Ancient Indo-Gangetic Anthropomorphic Figure from Uttar Pradesh)
Pieces of Me // Old Artworks, Plastic, Grey Tissue Paper, Metallic Wrapping Paper, Cream Striped Polo, Grey Collared Shirt, Black Striped Collars Shirt, Black Collared Shirt, Kept Cocktail Picks, Button, Thread
Pieces of Me // Old Artworks, Plastic, Grey Tissue Paper, Metallic Wrapping Paper, Cream Striped Polo, Grey Collared Shirt, Black Striped Collars Shirt, Black Collared Shirt, Kept Cocktail Picks, Button, Thread
Deflated Star (DS) // Gifted Union Square Party City Ballon