Projection/ Installation for Nuit Blanche Devereaux (2009)

                              Melting Projection/Installation (ice, ink, projector, acetate), 2009

This was an installation that I did for Nuit Blanche Deveaureaux in 2009. Curated by the exceptionally talented team of Victoria Cheong and Allison Peacock, NBD was an "all day/evening program of works that represent a variety of female perspectives in a multi-disciplinary style".

This piece was comprised of an image of a human heart on acetate layered onto an image of smokestacks. I wanted to create movement to the work, so I added a layer of ice (formed as a rectangular block) and a few drops of red ink; and through the melting process, bubbles in the ice popped and travelled and mixed with the red ink. 

I love that my dear cat Kiska makes several cameos in this piece, giving an additional performance element to the work. That's my girl!

Auschwitz (2)

Untitled (Auschwitz 2), hand-cut paper, 4 layers, 30.5x18 inches,
2 panels (left panel 22x18 inches, right panel 8.5x 18 inches), 2012

This is another piece based on a photograph that I took at Auschwitz. The panel in this room reads as follows: The police prisoners (polizeihaftung) who were to be judged by the summary court, were put on the ground floor of barrack 11. They were not the inmates of the camp but of gestapo from Katowice, the victims of Nazi terror in occupied Poland. Most frequently they were sentenced to death, rarely to be put in KL Auschwitz.