Installation view, from left: Partial View, Dreams and Hopes of Running Away with You, All I Want is Want, The Boom Boom Room
Several months ago I began dipping into resonant places and relationships of my adolescence, working from a combination of recollection, material souvenir, improvisatory studio process and immediate experience. The pieces pictured here belong to a body of work that explores desire as something predicated on a distance, or gap, between what exists presently/really and what is longed for. The woods, the fort, and the domestic interior are seen as spatial manifestations of the psyche, containers that affectively summon a tension between curiosity and hesitation, pleasure and fear, the familiar and the unknown, the tangible and the fleeting. Spread-out constellations of units support one another, culling a non-linear narrative while calling attention to their own porous borders. I would like the sum to have the effect of a sort of residue, to feel like the excitement-tinged-disappointment that follows the main event.