Izzo

Take one at this portrait: the arms still need some work and I forgot to take a picture while it was just the drawing, but it's getting there.

New Digs

Moved in on Saturday, got some decorations up on the walls today. I realized afterward that I had built a giant defensive book pile onto the front of my desk, just like the one I used to complain about at Elsewhere. Clearly I miss that sort of controlled chaos.

Once upon a time....

 Once upon a time.... is an installation at Elsewhere, a living museum and residency program in Greensboro, North Carolina. The room was a collaboration between myself and Helen McCarthy, a fellow artist/intern.

The woods can be reached through a cavernous doorway on the second floor.

The tree inside sprouts from the pages of fairy tales in the Elsewhere collection.

 

The paintings on the walls are all patterns pulled from clothing in the wardrobe. The materials used in the imaginative game of dress-up are applied to the interior space of the installation as well, wrapping you up in the world of imagination illuminated at night by light from within the tree itself. The hanging objects were selected to both capture and reflect the light from the tree, as well as to fit the fairy tale archetypes that each wall represents: specifically god, monsters, life, death, and cancer.

Monster wall, detail.

God wall, detail.

Life wall, detail.

Cancer wall, detail.

There are beds in the room so that visitors can come in and be read stories from the books of fairy tales within the tree by the light of the tree, and can activate and perform those and newly created stories within the space.