For this installation/tableau I was interested in continuing my thinking on nostalgia, but this time creating more of emotional contrast in the juxtaposition of elements. I found these wonderful Darth Vader cow skull robot things (circa 1980?) at a flea market–cracked, chipped, and basically garbage. I still can’t figure out what they are or what they were [...]
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there, there: an installation (part 1)
Posted in inspirations, installations, photos, spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged afghan, antfarm, art, artist, comfort, curtains, dad, death, domesticity, earring, fabric, father, fiction, grief, Hiroshima Mon Amour, installation art, lies, memory, mourn, nostalgia, raleigh, vintage on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m working on my There, there installation for Antfarm. It’ll be up for just the one evening (First Friday, March 5), which is both exciting in its ephemerality and a little sad for all the work that goes into it. There, there started with an idea, well, really it was a feeling. The man who [...]