Tactile Experience

So, although this is a project from last semester, I avoided posting it until now for two reasons:

1. Although I'm happy with how this project turned out, I never thought it was my best work.

2. The photos cannot do it justice; it is about the performative aspect.

But, finally, I am posting it, because there is a video on Youtube now! My performance shows up about 1 minute into it.

The idea of the project was to make a wearable sculpture and a performance to go with that sculpture, all to be worn and performed by the creators at the Wearable Sculpture Dance Party in the Turner Gallery, the Friday night before Halloween. They couldn't be costumes; they had to be wearable sculptures. There had to be at least one sewn or papermaking aspect of the sculpture.

We Were the Memory of a Place

22" x 26" x 18"
Hot glue, cinder blocks, river stones


This project has a lot to do with memory, but maybe not in a way that I can share with you; a few certain memories that I have, that I share with only one or two other people, centering on a specific physical place that has been surprisingly important to me in the past few years. Some things can't be told or shared entirely.

Twenty Three Point Six Plus One

54" x 15" x 5.5"
Wood, toilet paper, 12 volt motor


Americans use 23.6 rolls of toilet paper per capita every year.

Alexander

34" x 13" x 33"
Steel

Teatime

17" x 12" x 11"
Plywood

I will forever be surprised by the strength of wood glue (and wood glue is all that this is bound with) as I continue to throw, kick, and generally manhandle this sculpture, with few ill effects.