Absence of Flight
After Cormac McCarthy's The Road
The Absence of Flight: The Thing with Wings / The Thing with Feathers, 2002-2010
Grape stems, wax, chicken bones, dresser drawer, picture hanging wire
$400.00
2002-2010
Anatomy of Addiction
Anatomy of Addiction: Alex and Christopher at home (2009)White #4 Home Life coffee filters, Cafe Bustelo coffee, nylon thread, LED rope light
36"x30"x5"
$350
Anatomy of Addiction: Anne at work (2009)White #2 Melita coffee filters, Starbucks coffee, nylon thread, LED rope light
16"x12"x5"
$250
Anatomy of Addiction: Alex at home (2009)White #2 Giant brand coffee filters, Cafe Bustelo coffee, nylon thread, LED rope light
42"x20"x5"
$350
3 of 5 coffee filter pieces, created for a two person show titled Surfaces, April 5- May 2, 2009 at the new ArtDC space in Hyattsville, MD.
About the Addiction series
I started working with coffee filters in 2006, after I left one in my studio coffee pot for several weeks. I'd never bothered to keep a coffee filter around before - usually they're kind of gross and slimy after use, and I'd throw them away immediately, in order to make room for a new one. But this time, when I opened up the coffee pot and found the filter completely dried out - with a high-tide mark from where the grounds had rested, and a brown ring around the lip - the contrast between the paper's translucency and the dried grounds sparked something in my imagination. Right then, I saw the image of a mass of filters hanging in my huge, opaque window, lit from behind by the day light.
So as always happens at the start of a new piece, I started collecting. I saved every cone filter I used at home, and even got my co-workers to save them from our pot at work - I gathered size 2s and 4s, as well as bleached and unbleached filters, whatever I could find. It took six months of saving before I had enough filters to build my first piece, and half that time was spent experimenting with various fixatives (to keep the grounds from continuously shedding) and attachment techniques. I finally settled on tacking the filters together with a needle and thread, instead of sewing every edge - the trickiest part of making my work is always the practical aspect, figuring out how to actually build what I've imagined.
At this point, I have created three coffee filter pieces - a small wall-hanging piece, a set of 3 relatively-spherical objects, and a 5' wide wall piece, which was created specifically for Artomatic in 2008.
So as always happens at the start of a new piece, I started collecting. I saved every cone filter I used at home, and even got my co-workers to save them from our pot at work - I gathered size 2s and 4s, as well as bleached and unbleached filters, whatever I could find. It took six months of saving before I had enough filters to build my first piece, and half that time was spent experimenting with various fixatives (to keep the grounds from continuously shedding) and attachment techniques. I finally settled on tacking the filters together with a needle and thread, instead of sewing every edge - the trickiest part of making my work is always the practical aspect, figuring out how to actually build what I've imagined.
At this point, I have created three coffee filter pieces - a small wall-hanging piece, a set of 3 relatively-spherical objects, and a 5' wide wall piece, which was created specifically for Artomatic in 2008.
Addiction, part 3
#2 and #4 coffee filters, coffee grounds, nylong thread, acrylic medium, LED rope light
5'x5'x6"
Sold
About the Addiction series.
Addiction/Infestation, 2008
#2 and #4 coffee filters, coffee grounds, nylon thread, acrylic medium
24"x26"x26"
$250 - 300 each
About the Addiction series.
The Transformed Book Project
Cormac McCarthy's The Road, an altered book, 2008
Withdrawn library book, burnt matches
$350
Lisa See's Dragon Bones, an altered book, 2008
Withdrawn library book, resin
10"x15"x2"
$350
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