Inheritance, is projection work and light sculptures installed on the third Saturday of the month, over the course of four months, Summer 2022. July and August were different projection and sound pieces, September was a light sculpture and sound piece, October combined all three months of work into one immersive view. The installations were located in a community garden between two brown stones in Harlem, NYC. I pictured the garden as a sort of burial ground - picturing women buried in their finest jewelry, and musicians forever preserved with their string instruments. Synthetic hair, pearls, and bass string were braided together. The hair was used to humanize the structure but also to act as a type of fertilizer. The materials were assembled on to stacked tomato cages forming an obelisk-like structure.

The work was viewed best at night, when the oasis was sent ablaze with light. Hair wrapped in hairnets and LEDs formed mounds throughout the ground with a conversational audio piece. The video work took specific examples from the neighboring streets. The projections were reflecting back on to the structures what the soil had witnessed over the decades. All of the footage was shot in a three-block radius of the garden.

Echoes in Harlem, 2022, curated by Natsuki Takauji, The Artist Gardener, NYC, West 132nd Street Community Garden, 108-114 W 132nd Street, New York, NY, USA.

 

October 1st, 2022. video projections, light sculptures, LEDs, speaker.

July 16th, 2022. video projection, speaker.

August 20th, 2022. video projection, speaker.

September 17th, 2022. light sculptures, LEDs, speaker.

October 1st, 2022. video projections, light sculptures, LEDs, speaker.

July 16th, 2022. video projection, speaker.

July 16th and October 1st, 2022. Excerpt.

August 20th and October 1st, 2022. Excerpt, horizontal arrangement of video projection.