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A Cage No Less

wallpaper, adhesive, Tyvek, cast paper, wood, sound

90” x 120” x 120” installation view University of Northern Colorado's Mariani Gallery

sound by Todd Bowser

2018

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I began cutting wallpaper with the unending coverage of the 2016 election and the #metoo movement as the soundtrack to my work day.  I am screaming from the corner and feeling exposed.

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"A Cage No Less" is made of two rolls of wallpaper with the flower pattern removed then separated by color into positive and negative elements.  Every extracted floral print coat a series of hollow paper objects assembled in the corner.  A skin of dissected wallpaper backed by Tyvek lines a screen obstructing the arranged objects. A faint collage of recordings plays in the corner that my frequent collaborator, Todd Bowser, made of the deconstruction of the exposed piano harp I cast for the assemblage, furthering the feeling of instability or deterioration.

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