Installation at UAP Gallery, Loveland, CO. March 2024.
No Home Radio explores home finding through the lens of the California Case Study houses that were designed with cheap industrial materials, the home renter’s crisis in Colorado, and the experience of living out of boxes or making your home through boxes ordered in the mail.
Sculptural works are made using cardboard boxes, house paint, and plaster of Paris that is made out of gypsum. A video filmed at White Sands National Monument dislocates where the white dunes are ever-moving gypsum sands much like that feeling of the artist moving from place to place, seeking home. Three lenticular prints shift from desert to ocean and back, what once was desert is now ocean or vice versa. When the desert was the ocean floor. Lie on the blue circle rug and stare up at a cardboard ceiling with a light and dream up a place to be. Be here now. A ladder draws the eye upwards (Eames house). The sound of static on the radio. Alienated, grounded. Home eternal. Home within.
The title No Home Radio riffs on Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie.
No Home Radio Works List
Two of Hearts + Minds, 1 + 2
2024, Oil pastel on paper, 11” x 14”
Case Study Architecture Piece with Cardboard, 1 – 12
2024, Plaster of Paris, cardboard, house paint, size varies, approx. 18” x 22” x 3”
Moving Things
2024, Cardboard box in plaster of Paris on concrete blocks, approx. 30” x 24” x 16”
Shifting Sands
2018, HD single channel video projection, 02:16 loop
Desert / Ocean, 1 – 3
2024, Lenticular 2-photograph print, 5” x 5” in 8” x 8” frame
Be Here Now
2024, Cardboard, house paint, LED light, wire, circle rug, approx. 5’ x 5’ floor and ceiling
Readymades
Radio set to AM static station + Ladder