"These Things I Say Out Loud"
CalArts MFA Thesis Exhibition
My MFA thesis show includes an installation of four wall drawings, and
drawings on paper, which explore ideas of communication, language, and the
frailty of human interaction.


These Things I Say Out Loud (installation detail), installation/wall drawings: ink,
graphite, charcoal, spline, wire, eyebolts, tape, paint marker, dimensions variable,
2006



These Things I Say Out Loud (installation view), installation/wall drawings: ink,
graphite, charcoal, spline, wire, eyebolts, tape, paint marker, dimensions variable,
2006



These Things I Say Out Loud (installation view), installation/wall drawings: ink,
graphite, charcoal, spline, wire, eyebolts, tape, paint marker, dimensions variable,
2006



These Things I Say Out Loud (installation view), installation/wall drawings: ink,
graphite, charcoal, spline, wire, eyebolts, tape, paint marker, dimensions variable,
2006



Figures of Speech (Installation View), Multi-Channel Video Installation,
Dimensions Variable, 2005



Figures of Speech (Video Still), Multi-Channel Video Installation,
Dimensions Variable, 2005

“Figures of Speech”, through an exploration of performed gestures, looks at
the potential of attempting communication, and its possible futility.
Gestures are performed, fragmented, pulled from their cultural context,
repeated, extended in time, choreographed and combined in unaccustomed
patterns. They are pushed past simple representations of their supposed
meanings. In the absence of a mutually agreed upon meaning, and any sort of
cultural constants, what do these gestures become? What might be
communication and a means of connection, could potentially become something
different, something less, something more.



Ten Common Gestures Repeated (Gestures Drawings Series)
(detail view), pastel on paper, 25.5” x 19”, 2005



Peace for 15 Minutes (Gestures Drawings Series) (detail view), charcoal on paper
15” x 22”, 2005

Gestures Drawings Series
A series of installations which present videos of the creation of a drawing
of a common hand gesture (such as “OK” or “Hello!”), along with the drawing
itself. By showing the drawing in the partnership of the video of its
making, the drawing is in a continuous state of becoming; it never is
reduced to a mere thing, a static commodity. There is an intriguing
friction and energy between the time-based evolution of the video and the
totality and finality of the drawing.