Gallery 2:
Overstimulation

#1: The Aprons

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The Aprons, 2 series of 15 pieces each, 24" x 24" each.
The Aprons explore the increasing complications of living in an overstimulated, complex, quickly evolving technological society. Choices can be overwhelming - details are often absorbing and time consuming. At the same time, the quality of the information that we get is highly variable. How can we achieve contentment when faced with endless possibilities?

All manner of lifestyle priorities are addressed in this series - what products to buy, which entertainment to pursue, what social and political causes to support, which subcultures to join. How can we maintain and navigate sanity and productivity, given such a vast array of opportunities and choices?

Excerpt from text:

Audience Participation
"Get me instant-primal on a Friday night,
      stifle my work-grunts and gladden the distraction,
      peak me by the second set.
Warble me a plainsong, a symphonious swamp-pop ballad,
      jolt me with acid jazz or sludge metal.
I ache for the crescendo, it's soaring, sweaty freedom
      to give me my history back, my pride, my furnace."

#2: The Ironing Board


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The Ironing Board, Installation, 2003 (6’ x 6’)
Composed of antique ‘wonder lumber’ building blocks, a child’s chair, an iron and ironing board, washboard and game box, this installation depicts miniatures of great paintings of the twentieth century. This series satirizes the overstimulation we face in our culture today.