The House No Longer Ours - In collaboration with Susan McClelland
The repetition of felt, bricks and sticks provide both tangible evidence and rhetorical effect of moments without visible redundancy; no two are alike. The handling and arranging of moments, what is cultivated versus rejected, provide the structure of community.
The bricks when new start as solid, measured and structured forms, easily recognizable. When they are found on the shore of Lake Erie, they are historical artifacts, altered through time and persistent battering; the original heavy configuration modified, leaving a softer remnant. The effects of nature have uniquely changed each brick and its narrative. The narratives feed our understanding of the present and the accumulation of narratives feed and form our communities.
The repetition of felt, bricks and sticks provide both tangible evidence and rhetorical effect of moments without visible redundancy; no two are alike. The handling and arranging of moments, what is cultivated versus rejected, provide the structure of community.
The bricks when new start as solid, measured and structured forms, easily recognizable. When they are found on the shore of Lake Erie, they are historical artifacts, altered through time and persistent battering; the original heavy configuration modified, leaving a softer remnant. The effects of nature have uniquely changed each brick and its narrative. The narratives feed our understanding of the present and the accumulation of narratives feed and form our communities.
A site-specific installation-"The House No Longer Ours"
The volume and variety of the recovered bricks.
The cores become mortises and the sticks tenons.
The felting was provided by Susan McClelland.
"The House No Longer Ours" was arranged on the floor of the space creating paths through the "rubble" at Cleveland's Ingenuity Fest.
After three days of public interaction a new arrangement was made and a gourd was added.
