(S)watch Sets

 

Dotted (S)watch Set

cotton fabric and thread

5 x 7 " each

This is a series of works in cloth created by the removal of threads from the length and cross of woven fabric.  Similar to cut-work embroidery, the gesture is one of removal but the action is additive, pulling threads from the surface of the cloth, folding the filaments to the back of the surface.  The threads remain connected to the framework of the fabric, but the parallel lines of the woven surface are loosened, providing a window into the underlying structure of the cloth. 

Standing In

"I Stand Corrected" is a video by my studio mate Jereon Nelemans.  He asked me to stand in for this recording as a viewer placed off to the side. We're both interested in playing with formal design to create open grids, looking at the work of Mondrian, and studying the Fibonacci Series.

Spoke, Chicago

December 2010

I Stand Corrected from Jeroen Nelemans on Vimeo.

Light Train

Light Train

Spoke, Chicago

December 2010

These are a series of ten woven drawings created with a photo luminescent thread. The ten surfaces, created in sequence, are a metaphor for achieving fullness; the first weaving is empty while the tenth weaving is full. The linear material , a glow in the dark filament, supports a passive metabolic process like Fuller, absorbing light from the surrounding environment, emitting light in the surrounding darkness.
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washed muslin

glow-in-the-dark thread

straight pins

5" x 7" each

RedShift at Body Implement

photos by James Prinz

I created RedShift Party Hats in leather and feather for "Body Implement" at Nick Cave's Sound Suit Shop in Chicago's South Loop, November 2010. There's a narrative behind these hats which begins 13 years ago with a magazine tear sheet and the performance "Mercuria" by Lynn Book and Theo Bleckmann at "Here" in New York. I designed the costumes for these two vocalists who embodied more content than I've ever cloaked. Please see the clip...

This is a story about the infinite in the everyday, when invention interrupts intention with fluid generosity.

Fuller

Ready-made glow in the dark Oxford cloth, thread, pencil pleating, drapery hooks, aluminum rods, plastic sliders. Dimensions variable (appx 8' x 14')


Sustenance: 337 Singleton, Dallas TX , September 2009

An exhibit of site specific installations.

Organized by Stephen Lapthisophon and Anne Lawrence

For this exhibit I made a curtain of glow-in-the-dark fabric on a north facing wall of the Sustenance exhibit site. The primary source of light to this space was an entry door to the west. The random opening of the entry door charged the material over unmeasured intervals of time. The curtain, just by hanging there, supported a metabolic process, absorbing and emitting light, consuming and expelling light. The gathering of the curtain was a drawing process to create a fluctuating fullness containing pockets of space and darkness in each fold.


Here are some images from my research trip to Berlin: photos

Loie Fuller's Radium Dance

Link to Sustenance exhibit

Art Lies Review