I am using the “renewable resources” of my house such as newspaper, cereal boxes and plastic bags to make bolts of yardage. Woven, sewn or otherwise bound, the textile-like works vary in width, from 3 inches to 10 feet and are all continually growing in length.
Although this material might make viewers think about how the “yardage” could inevitably be be used or “re-purposed”, I resist formulating a product or even an end in the work. Instead , by presenting unending pieces and inviting the viewer to participate in the making, I am asking the viewer to think beyond product and think of the material as a blank canvas upon which one can explore the ideas of ownership, the definition of art and labor, and even the way we live. We think of blank canvases as clean white spaces to explore ideas, inspiration, and vision.The blank canvas I’m presenting is already full of complexities, intellectual as well as visual.With each exhibition, the yardage grows in visual and physical complexity and the collective experience creates another kind of indeterminate material-abstract but no less interesting.
