The image is a shot of the show “For Your Entertainment…” which was my MFA show this past semester, and what I spent a great deal of time preparing for. Pictured here are several of the photographs on the walls, and the large firework objects that occupied the floor space and another wall. It is all part of my work on the culture of fireworks, especially in an American society. The photographs are of retail spaces and firework packaging, and the objects are all oversized fireworks. The work addresses several ideas, some of which are consumerism, the value of entertainment, marketing, and even loneliness in life, using fireworks as a centering subject. The photographs were digitally printed from medium format film, and mounted on styrene, then the walls. The sculptural pieces used prints from scans, cardboard, glue, wood, styrene, sintra, and paint to mimic and recreate cheap, playful pyrotechnics that originally fit in a person’s hand. The show was up in the Arts Lofts Gallery April 10th thru 15th, 2010.