PROJECTS > Site-responsive collage installation (2012-2014)

When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Installation shot
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Installation shot
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Installation shot
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Installation shot
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Installation shot
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Installation Shot
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Site-responsive, durational collage
Detail
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
When Things Fall Apart
Closing Reception
2014
It's Not What You Thought When You First Began It
Found magazine images and T-pins
2014
All We Are is Dust in the Wind
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
39.5" in diameter
2012
Hairy Eyeballs
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
52" in diameter
2010
Hairy Eyeballs
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
Detail
2011
You Can't Always Get What You Want #2 (floor)
Various collages from Solace Studies (wall)
2013
You Can't Always Get What You Want #2
Upside-down collages from "Solace Studies"
Installation variable, here: 18’ 9” x 11’ 5”
2013
You Can't Always Get What You Want #2"
Upside-down collages from "Solace Studies"
Detail
2013
Solace Studies
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
2010-2013
Potatoes Pads Pizza Peanuts
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
2012
Cream Cheese Baby Blankets
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
22" x 25"
2011
Hair Jewels
Found magazines and scotch tape
16" x 48"
2011
The Most Perfect Form
Found magazines and scotch tape
14" x 11"
2011
Gold Chains and Empty Space
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
19" x 16"
2011
Cucumber Sweater Patron!
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
20" x 20"
2012
Ghost in the Machine
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
27" x 22"
2011
30 Hours in One Weekend (Klemm Gallery, Adrian, Michigan)
Site-responsive collage: collected magazine images and T-pins
8 x 24 feet
2013
30 Hours in One Weekend (Klemm Gallery, Adrian, Michigan)
Site-responsive college: collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013
30 Hours in One Weekend (Klemm Gallery, Adrian, Michigan)
Site-responsive collage: collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013
30 Hours in One Weekend (Klemm Gallery, Adrian, Michigan)
Site-responsive collage: collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013
30 Hours in One Weekend (Klemm Gallery, Adrian, Michigan)
Site-responsive collage: collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013
Specimens
Shadowboxes, collected magazine images, T-pins
30" x 40" each
2013
The "It" Bag
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
11" x 13"
2012
Into the Belly of Something Terrible
Collected magazine images, T-pins, shadowbox
30" x 40"
2013
Circling the Drain
Collected magazine images, T-pins, shadowbox
30" x 40"
2013
Plumage
Collected magazine images, T-pins, shadowbox
30" x 40"
2013
Sleek, Shiny, Curly
Collected magazine images, T-pins, shadowbox
30" x 40"
2013
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Installation shot
Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University
2013
Inside Out
Found magazines and scotch tape
41" x 36"
2011
Inside Out
Found magazines and scotch tape
Detail
2011
Faucet Cascade and Lovely Heart Attack
Collected magazine images and scotch tape
Installation shot
2012
35 Hours Over Five Days (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago)
Collected magazine images and T-pins
2013
35 Hours Over Five Days (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
35 Hours Over Five Days (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
35 Hours Over Five Days (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
2013
35 Hours Over Five Days (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago)
Collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013
Eight Hours All in a Row (Perficient Lobby, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
5 x 6 feet
2013
Eight Hours All in a Row (Perficient Lobby, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
Eight Hours All in a Row (Perficient Lobby, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
Eight Hours All in a Row (Perficient Lobby, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
9 x 8 feet
2013
Eight Hours All in a Row (Perficient Lobby, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
Eight Hours All in a Row (Perficient Lobby, Chicago)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
24 Hours, Over Two and Half Days (Public Pool, Detroit)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
24 Hours, Over Two and Half Days (Public Pool, Detroit)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
24 Hours, Over Two and Half Days (Public Pool, Detroit)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
24 Hours, Over Two and Half Days (Public Pool, Detroit)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
24 Hours, Over Two and Half Days (Public Pool, Detroit)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
24 Hours, Over Two and Half Days (Public Pool, Detroit)
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2013
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
48" x 43"
2012
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2012
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2012
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Collected magazine imagery and T-pins
Detail
2012
Over the course of Three Months in my Studio #1
Found magazines and T-pins
In progress in my studio
2013
Over the course of Three Months in my Studio #1
Found magazines and T-pins
Detail
2013
Over the Course of Three Months in my Studio #2
Collected magazine images and T-pins
2013
Over the Course of Three Months in my Studio #2
Collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013
Over the Course of Three Months in my Studio #2
Collected magazine images and T-pins
Detail
2013

Site-responsive collage (2012-ongoing)
My recent collage installations reveal the coexistence of anxiety and beauty in glossy magazines. The images in advertisements and lifestyle articles are intended by their producers to create new desires and manipulate existing ones in consumers. I cut out, organize and remix the images, making do with what is offered and turning the act of consuming into one of creating.

The resulting large-scale abstractions mimic organic forms, evoking both plant and animal characteristics: vines, barnacles, dripping water, as well as tufts of fur, scales and tails. The collected magazine images, symbolizing the never-ending desire for more, appear to grow from a void on the gallery wall, simultaneously representing terrifying nothingness and peaceful stillness. Rather than permanently adhering the individual parts of my collages to each other, I attach them directly to the gallery wall with T-pins, which reference both the constructive process of quilting and the deconstructive process of dissection. The temporariness of the pinning echoes the ephemeral nature of desire and the tactics we use to satisfy it.

This project would not be possible without the generous donations of used magazines from countless individuals. Special thanks to Philip James Salon and Twisted Scissors and Robert Jeffrey Salon.