Apartment Blocks 2010, A site specific installation in which I appropriated my Brooklyn apartment’s floor plan for the gallery installation. With multiple components made from MDF wood, this work consists of a series of small blocks, four inches wide, in various lengths, all reduced in scale by forty percent to fit the gallery’s dimensions. These wooden components are separate, interchangeable, and ready to reconfigure the apartment’s spaces. Taking as my starting point the tension between my need for stability and my feeling of constant fragility and mobility, I want to create works that deal with the boundaries between the temporary and the permanent.
This is a costume made line device i designed for performances based work and various architectural drawings.
Rebuilt/ Reconstruction Delphi
This series of installations explores the classical architecture found in Greek city of Delphi, which in ancient times was considered to be the center of the universe. By recreating some of its buildings, from a contemporary perspective, I want to bring a new interpretation to its ruins.
The columns are made from wire magazines stands and papers. As in modern architecture, the infrastructure (the magazine stands) holds and supports the structures (the paper). The minimal abstract drawings use architectural motifs as a way to connect with the glorious and rich culture of the Greeks. A three-dimensional effect is created from the shadows cast on the paper from the stands’ multilayer compartments. Together they reveal the illusion of a pilaster shape.
In a humorous contrast to the massive, solid stone cylindrical structures in the old temples, my “buildings” highlight a modern mobility. The columns are easy to carry, lightweight and transitory. This temporal quality reflects our current cultural fragility, which changes or may even disappear over time.
Capital #4
Capital #3
Capital #2
Column
Pilaster
Wrapping You a Gift , 34X50, ink on Watercolor paper
Peribolos
Peribolos-In ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a peribolos was a court enclosed by a wall, especially one surrounding a sacred area such as a temple, shrine, or altar. Peribolos walls (which may also be referred to as temenos walls) were sometimes composed of stone posts and slabs supported by poros sills.
Ink on Paper, Iron,
24 Steps to Built your Dream House
A series of 24 black ink abstract drawing on 5X17 paper. These sketches expose my unconscious vision of how to draw an ideal architectural blueprint plan. I have no rules of where to place each line. Like a nomadic person in my own world, I allow myself the freedom to explore the order of the lines in each step of the way. It is like a puzzle, that each drawing reveals new component of the dream home. 24 Steps to Built your Dream House is also offering a parodic statement on the whole notion of dream house.
