Here is an installation that I did for a show on my old campus recently in collaboration with an old textiles instructor. The show ended over a month ago, so I am shamefully posting this - like every thing else I post here - quite a bit after the fact. The piece is a repeated pattern (flipped and mirrored) from a source photograph, printed on a laser printer and wheat pasted to the wall outside of a school building. So I give you Cable Cars and Butterflies, one of the few names that I have given a piece that I actually love if not entirely for its natural caden
ce. Ultimately, the piece ends up resembling a larger-than-life Rorschach test. With the exception of a select few individuals, I have chosen not to disclose the source image in an attempt to not focus the attention of the viewer. This may seem a bit dubious given the very leading title, though one could certainly acknowledge the title's intentional deception if they pay attention. In a way, the piece is about deception, putting something controversial in the faces of people without them realizing what they are looking . Ideally, this is one of a series of (so far) at least four more. I am still in the process of experimenting with medium, though having the tiles printed with a foam board backing sounds oddly appealing if the price was not such an impeding factor.
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