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Interactive Web

Black Mountain College Re-happening

May 2025 & ongoing

Interactive Web is an ongoing project of collecting community fabric scraps and transforming refuse into material for play. First showing up at the 2025 Black Mountain College Museum Re-Happening, the projects was also installed at Lavender Rave in August of 2025, and is in process for future installations. 

 

So... why the woven web? I was thumbing through books at the Black Mountain College Museum library when I heard a familiar sound and looked up to see a video of friends playing on the TV across from me. It was the perfect then and now moment, as I poured over images of Anni Albers wall partitions and Susan Weil collages, and felt myself like a timeless thread, woven into the web of it all. I wrote in my notebook "multiplicity, layers, WEB". I knew in that moment I wanted to create something that represented the depth of social connectivity I feel here, and the way those connections multiplied and fortified int the wake of Helene.

The goal was to make something touched by as many hands as possible. All the fabric you see came from friend's unwanted clothes, fabric scraps from other artists, and trash bags at the back of small local thrift stores. The poplar trees were thinned from a friend's backyard, and even sewing machines were borrowed (mine was lost in the flood) Everything down to the thread was sourced through my network, resulting in an object that is both literally and conceptually a social fabric.

Cloud Meditation 

2017 Burren College of Art, Ireland

2023 Little Sandy Mush, North Carolina

Two installations setting the stage for a performance and interactive meditation. The original meditation was created during a month long course at Burren College of Art in Balleyvaughen, Ireland. The meditation invites participants to close their eyes and travel to a dreamlike headspace, feeling into the levity, emotionality, and physical ambiguity of being a cloud. 

The original installation took place on the 3rd floor of a historic limestone castle, and had participants sitting on floor pillows constructed from scrap tarps and stuffed with rummaged sheep's wool. 

The second iteration was held in a more immersive installation in 2023. A "cloud infinity room" was constructed of mirrors, sheets, mattresses, pillows, and suspended pieces of stuffing. Participants were led into the room blindfolded and read the same meditation. At the end participants removed their blindfolds to find themselves surrounded by seemingly endless cloudy softness, enhancing the overall effect of temporary transformation.

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