Florist backsplash
This backsplash wraps around wall and around the corner. |
Florist backsplash
You can see the tile wrapping around the corner on the bottom. |
Detail
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
Made from clay and glazed I formulated myself.
Clay, glaze, 2002-3 |
Detail, backsplash
Cone 6 hand-made tiles for a florist in Portland, OR.
Clay, glaze, 2002-03 |
The Love Orchard.
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 |
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Consider
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
A week after that, they bring the ball to a large studio. |
1997
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.
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
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
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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 
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