A Love Rebellion

A Love Rebellion is an interactive installation, one where I give art to people and open myself up to them. By being vulnerable and present with strangers, I hope to change the way they see themselves and the world around them. I hope to inspire people to their own greatness. You can follow the progress HERE. 
I am traveling the US during the summer of 2017, handing out stickers of drawings I have made, speaking with strangers about love and compassion and the effort to overcome fear and hatred. 

I am doing this in order to inspire kindness, love, and compassion in people, and remind them that they can change the world simply by being kinder to themselves.

Miss Fortunate and The Dress of Good Fortune

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February 12, 2014
I created a dress with quotes from ten different female authors sewed all over it, walked around and asked everyone to pick their fortune. 

Act Like the Real World is Facebook Day

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On February 5, 2014, I used my job to pretend the real world was Facebook. I made rules and guidelines for myself:

  1. Wear an eye-catching outfit that hints at being watched or observed in some way.
  2. Randomly “like” people and activities throughout the day.
  3. Randomly “poke” people throughout the day.
  4. Enter rooms and announce random, mundane tidbits about your life.
  5. Hang pictures of myself randomly on walls.
  6. Frame achievements of others and present them so that other people will also notice said achievements and give congratulations.
  7. Give people articles about things I am concerned about
It was a great way to show everyone how much more fun Facebook could be in real life.

Florist backsplash

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This backsplash wraps around wall and around the corner.

Florist backsplash

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You can see the tile wrapping around the corner on the bottom.

Detail

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I used the color palette the florist gave me.  She asked for a cup and saucer vine tile back splash.  I designed, created and installed the piece.

Detail, backsplash

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Made from clay and glazed I formulated myself.

Clay, glaze, 2002-3

Detail, backsplash

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Cone 6 hand-made tiles for a florist in Portland, OR.

Clay, glaze, 2002-03

The Love Orchard.

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The Love Orchard.  A project about free love. I send invitations to participants inviting them to "come and get some lovin'" in The Love Orchard. I hang low-fire salt porcelain hearts from the branches and scatter "fallen hearts" around the base of the tree. It is a love fest.

Clay, salt, copper, love, 1997 - 2000

Consider 

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This is an interactive installation I did at OCAC.  People are sent invitations to participate. They bring the invitation to a staff member at the school in exchange for a ticket. A week later, the participant takes the ticket to the same person in exchange for a ceramic ball.

Ownership

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A week after that, they bring the ball to a large studio.

1997

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In the studio hangs a large bulls-eye. They have the choice to throw it and smash it, or keep it.  If they smash it, the ticket is hung above a drawing of a ball, "in memoriam" of the ball that had been smashed.  

Goals and Purpose of Consider Ownership.

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This interactive installation examines how people assign value to items they cannot buy. By the end of the project, people were stealing balls from each other and some students found out where the ball storage area was, sneaked in, and swiped some of the balls.  I consider this a huge success.

Priceless

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This installation showed in the Portland building. The participants are directed to take a small pot from the shelves on the wall and leave something which they think is of equal value in its place. The trade cannot be any type of currency. Then, they fill out the trade on the "ledger" to the left.  The show ran for a month, and each week, I would replace the missing pots with new ones and put all of the trades into a large plexi-glass box in the shape of the Portland building. There were trades which occurred for trades as well. This installation was another attempt of mine to explore how people might assign value to an object outside the context of currency.


Clay, poster board, wood, paper, 2000

Searching for Ideal

This was my thesis project, which examines the context of an item and how it informs the viewer's estimation of value. All eggs on the shelves are $20, and the egg(s) behind glass are $600. This was in my thesis show as well as in a graduate show at Blackfish Gallery in Portland, Oregon.    
Clay, glaze, wood, glass, 2000