I am finally getting around to updating my blog (sort of). Here is a compilation of images from my show at Igloo this past September. Also, here is a little blurb about the work...This interactive installation asks the viewer to become part of a collective memory: the continuous shaping, erasing, and reforming of their environment.
The installation consists of magnetized walls which attract and hold a formation of hand-placed steel pellets placed by viewer participants. Over the course of a month, the installation undergos continuous transformation as visitors add the steel pellets to the magnetic wall and begin to reshape the growing mass.
The work comments on the nature of memory formation and transformation, creating a visual experience referencing organic systems, synapses, and natural growth. The individual becomes connected to a larger experience through this interaction with the work, leaving behind a mark for someone else to interpret and continue.
