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“It is shown that a uniform suspension of bubbles rising at a constant speed is a solution to the model…It is also shown that this steady solution is unstable.”
Bubbly Flows with Gravity and Viscosity, Peter Smereka, 1998
The elements of this video installation:
- sewing loops, sewing books (loops of binding) led me to recognize that each person is a conglomeration of loops (internal, cognitive, emotional, narrative.)
- drawings on the wall (paper) copied from my brother’s notebook (lots of tubes and loops)
- the clothing used to make the loopy tubes belonged to my friend Cecile
- the video is a loop
- wind turbines loop, and allude to pages turning in a book
- shadows of people walking refer to cells, death and loops: shadows of their former selves
- ‘bubbly flow’ is the subject of my brother's research
- when you put two things together they form a ‘loop.’

not not bubbly flow

"flightless" A wall installation, flynndog, 2014. Beginning in 2008 I started to draw dirigibles. The verve to do so had seemed to come from ‘nowhere.’ So for this installation, I explored possibilities as to what had drawn me to these ‘lighter than air’ vessels.
My journey for answers led me to “The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed” by John McPhee and it was through that odd book that I began to understand a sympathy for the ‘lost cause.’ The book chronicles, airship Deltoid 7 (among others), which never got off the ground.
Alongside the question of dirigibles was the question of dried and withered fruit and vegetables that I had been collecting for 2 years from a place where I worked. I found them all beautiful but did not quite understand what I was going to do with the lot that was growing.
These unknown, hidden, dried up and inert lumps in our histories are somehow comforting to me. Flightless is my own beautiful, encumbered vessel that was shown at the flynndog in 2014.
The work comprised a variety of dried fruits and vegetables as well as an ink wash on a 15' X 20' wall

REPAIR - wall installation, 2012 at Quench Space, Waitsfield. It is comprised of approximately 2000 weathered cloths pins and 100 collage prints. The inspiration for this piece came from the process of reading my aunt's letters. I started extracting words and phase that spoke of some kind of inherent conflict or contradiction in the human mind. Through making the prints and collecting the clothes pins I began to have a more peaceful resolve about the banality of our existence.

'fulminant' This works was done in collaboration with Ria Blaas. It is a site specific form built into the space at flynndog, 2014, from ash stripes found in the woods after lightening struck the tree. Words were burned into each strip.

HIDDENROOM - Video installation, flynndog, 2005. A collaboration with Karen McGregor and Jane Horner. This installation followed an installation that Jane and I did in 2003 - SHOWROOM. Karen McGregor documented the piece and some of the footage from that is contained in HIDDENROOM.

streams of consciousness

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