Selected Installations

Ask me to dinner; your chandelier, my education.

Black and Blue porcelain carrots, fermented carrot juice, spoons, Bausch + Lomb optical glass, punching bag, cement, forged table frame and wire Solje filigree.

2022

The Velvet Noose (Collaboration) – Memorial Art Gallery/University of Rochester

Performance date: March 1, 2018

The Flying Fish III (2017)

Re-imagined Zoopraxiscope: Oak, Brass, Enamel, Cerrobend Metal, Magnifying Sheet, Optical Theremin, Fender Tube Amp.

Dimensions variable

2017

Flying Fish III Statement:

“My work is an exploration of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the ‘aura’. Aura is an experiential response to an object or image dependent on its ‘distance’ from the viewer, or how close it is to one’s body and the human experience. It is identified through its uniqueness and physical position in space and time, much as we are. My research has brought me to the first apparatus that showed a projected moving image: Eadwaerd Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope. It is positioned in a moment before fixed frame rates. I have altered the design into a unique handmade object and instrument incapable of being reproduced. At this point in the history of film the viewer is able to control the medium by means of a crank. This interests me because it makes the moving image more like a book or painting where it can be examined at one’s own pace as the viewer is active rather than passive. Benjamin states in his essay Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936), that reproducible film and images experienced passively will create a problematic sense perception– one which allows society to enjoy the spectacle of its own demise, one which is rooted in unconscious alienation. He concludes his essay with a warning that this medium will ultimately be politicized and become a vehicle for fascism. Given the current political climate and the plethora of problematic issues surrounding the progeny of the moving image, I hope to re-imagine its origin point. There is an optical theremin within the apparatus that is triggered by light flashing through the shutter. The visual bombardment is then translated into a specific train-like noise that ebbs and flows at a fluid rate that cannot be separated from the individual controlling the apparatus. I have named my machine The Flying Fish after Harry Collingsworth’s early science fiction novel The Log of the Flying Fish (1894). In this book the ‘Flying Fish’ is a blimp-like transport device that is capable of operating in the air as well as under water– just as this apparatus is operating within physical and hyper realities.”

To remember me by; This made me think of you; Don’t forget to bring something back. (2016)

Fender Tube Amplifier, Optical Theremin, HolyGrail Reverb Pedal, Mooer Pitch Pedal, VocalAD Pedal Station, 1/4in cables, Cerrosafe, Cerrobend, Pewter, Metal Jewelry chain, Stained glass, Wire, Steel Rod, Steel Chain, Miniature Ornaments, LED rod.

10.5’ X 15’ X 12”

2016

Show Statement:

“I have been paying attention to the narratives people hang from their bodies and chain to their wrists. In these miniature cast metal worlds, a person’s story becomes manifest in how they choose to mediate their memories with mementos, charms and keepsakes. Metal shape shifts in a crucible, light dims in shadow and sound wavers with distance. These most sensitive mindscapes, these solid manifestations of inner being, create the blocking for life’s events to to play out and into our sense of self, place, and belonging.”

Shine A Light: Milbrook Marsh Illuminated with Anne Tarantino (2014)

Electroluminescent wire and LED’s. Installation across 60-acre wetland

Site-specific installation created for Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, State College, PA. 15 hand-woven nets, built from electro-luminescent wire, are installed within the wetland along with hundreds of submersible LED’s. Visitors are invited to walk along the boardwalk and view the illuminated wetland at night.

Photographs by Cody Goddard