Walls Altered

2005

This installation represents the first non-ceramic work I've exhibited. When I started the year-long residency program with the University of Texas at Dallas, I was just out of graduate school and making ceramic sculpture. For the first six months of the residency I experimented with lots of different materials outside of clay with little success. With this series I was wanted to get past the limitations of my smaller work and make something that had an impact on what ever space it was in.

I think of these pieces as a response to the clean, clinical and benign space that normally represents a gallery: hemorrhoidal growths that interrupt an otherwise unblemished wall. I positioned them at heights that would create relationships with one's lower body as these are areas that usually show the most signs of overindulgence.