To Have and To Hold
To Have and To Hold is an animation of a bed slowly spinning to a music box waltz as it unmakes itself down to bare bedposts. One by one, discarded possessions begin to rain down onto the bed, building into a precarious mound.
Audrey Superhero
Audrey Superhero, an experimental documentary, explores the shifting terrain of gender identity. The film includes vividly charged discussions with Audrey, who insists she is Superman.
From the Same Water
From the Same Water combines the sculptural element of a miniature pool with video projection. Projected inside the miniature pool is a human figure floating and sinking.
Water Windows
This video installation of an underwater environment, framed within Peterborough Historical Society’s arched windows, investigates our personal relationships attached to everyday objects. Visions set loose under the current -- a chair, a swing set, a dress -- appear in slow motion, drifting in and out of view.
Milky-milk
A tiny LCD video monitor showing a life-sized breast viewed from below is suspended just above head-height. Perilously clinging to the nipple is a single droplet of milk, which in a matter of minutes falls from the nipple and obscures the view of the breast.
Give
Shown on a large LCD panel placed on the floor, Give addresses the complexities of self-protection, nurturing, and sexuality. The view presented is a recumbent woman seen from above, who slowly and sensually removes from her mouth what appears to be her entrails, and lays them upon her belly.
Nightfeedings
The installation Nightfeedings features a miniature glass bed, precariously suspended as if free-floating. Seamlessly projected onto the glass bed’s surface is a video of an infant awakening at night, and then comforted and nursed back to sleep by her mother.
Tug
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Tug is a three-channel video installation representing the interplay of tension and harmony within parenthood. A man and a woman struggle at tug-of-war in a life-sized, diptych projection, while on a separate, wall-mounted monitor a toddler dances, sings, implores mama and dada and shuttles between them.
The Audrey Samsara
The Audrey Samsara is a meditative, slowly unfolding video featuring the artist’s 18-month old daughter breastfeeding, falling asleep, reawakening, breastfeeding and again falling into deep sleep.
Her Majesty’s Request
Her Majesty’s Request combines a sculptural element with video. From afar, Her Majesty’s Request appears to be a child-sized Chippendale-style chair with a plush, red velvet cushion. Drawing nearer, the viewer may begin to hear quiet kissing and slurping sounds which beckon for closer inspection.
Shelter for Daydreaming
Shelter for Daydreaming is a two-channel video which invokes the netherworld of “In-Betweeness.” Projected large-scale onto a free standing, “floating” wall centered within the gallery, the first channel of video shows a small house seemingly suspended in an aqueous region which is without gravity, yet is somehow tethered to the movement of the underside of waves.
Almost Home
A video installation with three channels of video and audio. Based upon the memories and dreams we associate with our past, present and future homes, Almost Home is a triptych of large-scale projections showing miniature, handmade houses.
Pitch and Roll
Pages from the artist’s teenage journal scroll slowly across two small LCD monitors which rotate back to back on a stand in the center of the room, revealing her thirteen-year-old quips and quandaries. She “frenches” a boy for the first time and bemoans the fact that the same week her father gave away her backyard swingset.
Trapped Wasp
Home is portrayed as a place for potential entrapment. On the wall in a small, darkened room hangs an 11 x 14 inch gold-leaf oval frame. Rear-projected within the frame is a portrait of a bride, with a larger-than-life sized wasp seemingly trapped within the frame.
How to Pee Like A Boy
We illicitly land in the Men’s room, in front of an unenclosed toilet bowl. The projection fills the miniature bowl hung on the wall and spills onto the floor below.
