'HELLO!' (bottom left)

Installation/Performance
2013

Approximately 1,300 envelopes were arranged on a grid in a gallery. Each empty envelope reads “Open Me First”. In the front of the gallery with the envelopes were white balloons with name tags attached. Participants could pull down the balloons, write their names, and attach the balloons to their wrists so their names floated over their heads as they walked around the space. Participants could walk between two walls to a dark space in the back of the gallery lit only with a single spotlight over a chair, on which was a notebook journaling my reflection on the work.

'What Does Home Look Like?' (top and bottom right)

Workshop and Sculptural Installation
2013

Kids at the Madison Children’s Museum were asked what home means to them. On one side of index cards, kids were asked to write their name and their age on a Hello! name tag. On the other side the kids wrote or drew their thoughts on home. One kid who was asked what home meant to him said, “everything!” and when his mom asked him how he would represent that, he thought for a moment before saying, “I know!” and writing everything phonetically: “avrefing”. These index cards were attached to ribbons connected to 5 32” gold start Mylar balloons.