Installations

During Covid time I spent two years preparing new work for a museum exhibition. Without the usual concerns of my practice I was able to devote my efforts solely to creative tasks. I found a need to balance my photographic solutions with installations of found plastic objects in a sculptural fashion that would enhance the viewers experience and play off what I had already established visually with my shadow-box framed prints.

The scale of the photographs sometimes conflicted with my intentions. What looks "right" online when enlarged to the size of a 3 foot print, in a live exhibition, made the objects look like miniatures. It is the case where the enlargments actually become reductions, instead. The overall sculpture that was 10 feet across on the studio floor but the print was rendered at 30 percent of the original. One such piece is the photograph 'Work Gloves'.

I use this scale effect to make a statement about the quantity of objects that I find. A large quantity of objects is the foundation of my project. Thus, both photograph and installation help me prove overwhelmingly what my field work found. Plastic packaging is on a run away course.