My installations interrupt everyday spaces, in particular the featureless, endlessly adaptable spaces of globalized architecture. Combining projected video, sound, and basic building materials, the projects propose a kind of makeshift magic in unlikely places. In Mining the Gap, daylight and street sounds filter through a ventilation grate, revealing a passage through the wall and a skewed view of the street activity outside. In another project, billowing white smoke appears to enter and fill a room through a series of vents in the walls. Often the work perforates the boundaries of an enclosed space, opening it both visually and psychologically. I disturb these generic built spaces in order to call their supposed neutrality into question, asking people to imagine what else might be possible within and beyond them.

Image 1: Window
A small window appears to cast a moving light pattern onto the wall perpendicular to it. In fact the light patterns are projected onto the wall from a projector across the room. A clip lamp shines through the small window, and paper and wire “leaves” are blown by an oscillating fan. I plan to install the piece where a window to the outside would be improbable, in a basement or interior room.

Image 2: Mining the Gap
Daylight and sound filter through a ventilation grate, revealing a passage through the wall and a view of the bus stop outside. The passage is the interior of a periscope built behind the gallery wall. The periscope’s interior is lined with drywall, fiberglass insulation and wires. The periscope flips the view of the street activity 90 degrees. The audio of drainpipes and pigeons locates this passage as neither entirely inside or outside, but in the space between.