Notes for Telles:

One source of inspiration for my installation is

from a series of sculptures that I made in

2012-14 using New York Times newspapers,

found photographs, grey-scale paper, grommets,

and colored vinyl. The newspaper, locked closed

by grommets, with text and images occluded,

roots itself in our familiarity. We are used to

seeing things for sale in windows; neatly piled

up, elaborately decorated, sparkling, animatronic,

floating on a bed of fluff.

The window will be “faced” with a paper-based

assemblage not dissimilar to the treatment of

the 2014 newspaper sculptures. A large tapestry

will hang from the inside sill, filling the windows

aside of 3 open rectangular holes. The largest

hole will sit on the right 1/3 of the largest window

(roughly 3x6 feet) revealing two boxes, one on

top of the other, each with their own fluorescent

light source (there’s a possibility that the inner

surfaces of the boxes may be mirrored). There

will be undersized tents made from armature

wire clad with sewn and tied shopping bags and

other materials making up the tent shells. They

will be installed on top of one another making

a two storied campsite. Left of that, at about

eye level will be a small television screen

(12x12 inches). A stop animation video made

in 2012 titled, Patio Pleading for Peace, in which

a large pile of detritus coalesces into a giant

peace sign and dances upon a roof-deck in

Brooklyn, will play on repeat. Below the TV, at

the far bottom-Left of the large window will be a

small rectangular box housing a single sandbag

sewn out of cotton duck canvas. The sandbag

will be filled with rice.

The compartmentalization of the elements

both isolates and contextualizes them; each

object contributing indirectly to a narrative

which aims to entice the passerby into some

strange shop