Objects can help us examine our relationship with a post-industrial digital world and machine fabricated mass-production. These mass-produced unhoused objects, re maid, and given a second life examines how effective ugliness has the power to subvert, and, as such, is often the territory of the radical, it has the power to transform, shift opinion, and to shape taste.
This series consists of two found object mattresses. Both examining our physical intimacy with these objects.
Mattress,27 glass Nipples, and fingers, Silicone, Pins.
Medium:
Found mattress, Glass, Pearls,Silicone, flooring,
Dimensions:
75" x 52" x 3"
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Found mattress, Glass, Pearls,Silicone, flooring,
Dimensions:
75" x 52" x 3"
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Found mattress, Glass, Pearls,Silicone, flooring,
Dimensions:
75" x 52" x 3"
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Found mattress, Glass, Pearls,Silicone, flooring,
Dimensions:
75" x 52" x 3"
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Found mattress, Human Hair, Glass, Compressed flooring.
Dimensions:
75" x 75" x 3
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Found mattress, Human Hair, Glass, Compressed flooring,
Dimensions:
85" x 52" x 3"
On long runs through Oakland I think about how I interpret the world through the objects I encounter daily. Most specifically, the intimate relationships we create with objects and the behavioral cues embedded in them. I document them, outside, in the cityscape now useless and unhoused on the street. Imagining the intimacy that we once had with them as they performed their function for us. I was left wondering about them, as tiny perfect sculptures. What happens to an object’s identity when it no longer supports us? When we no longer find them valuable? With this piece, I explored our relationship with our beds. I often see them once they have been tossed out from their homes onto the street in Oakland. I started to collect the unhoused mattresses and make molds of them. This piece comprised of 25Pieces Of mattresses remade into glass. Each one is different and unique.
Glass, Compressed hardwood flooring
90”x72”x4”
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Glass, Acrylic, Compressed flooring, Hair, Pearls, Silicone,
Dimensions:
75" x 130” x 4"
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Glass, Acrylic, Compressed flooring, Hair, Pearls, Silicone,
Dimensions:
75" x 130” x 4"
Installation composed of 75 glass components, Compressed flooring, Pearls, Silicone, Hand-cut dichroic wallpaper pattern.
We rely on a one-way intimacy with The objects in our lives, having daily physical contact With them. What happens when these objects become unstable or threatening? Investigating Object relationships In our living spaces. Reinterpretation Of a bedroom come undone
Medium:
Glass, Acrylic, Compressed flooring, Hair, Pearls, Silicone,
Dimensions:
75" x 130” x 4"
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Glass, Acrylic, Compressed flooring, Hair, Pearls, Silicone,
Dimensions:
75" x 130” x 4"
Detail of the installation, One of 8 Cast glass sheets, Reused from personal bed.
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Glass, Acrylic, Compressed flooring, Hair, Pearls, Silicone,
Dimensions:
75" x 130” x 4"
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Glass
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10" x 43" x 1"
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Glass
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10" x 43" x 1"
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Glass
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10" x 43" x 1"
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Glass
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10" x 43" x 1"
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Glass
Dimensions:
4’ x 19" x 2"
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Glass
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4’ x 19" x 2"
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Glass
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4’ x 19" x 2"
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Glass
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4’ x 19" x 2"
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glass
Dimensions:
10" x 8" x 1"
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glass
Dimensions:
10" x 8" x 1"
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glass
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17" x 20" x 3"
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glass
Dimensions:
17" x 20" x 3"
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Glass
Dimensions:
37" x 3" x 2"
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Glass
Dimensions:
37" x 3" x 2"
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glass
Dimensions:
25" x 12" x 3"
Medium:
glass
Dimensions:
25" x 12" x 3"
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
17" x 17" x 1"