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S h a d o w H a p p y
An Installation at Core New Art Space
Sept. 30 - Oct 17, 2010 |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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Self:
(4,000 folded paper cranes, 1"-7")
Once upon a time, I wrote a novel. It took me 8 years and upon
completion a New York City Literary Agent asked for a copy. I
reread it again, decided it wasn't good enough and never sent it.
In 2006, I started folding the stacks of manuscript pages lying
around my house into origami cranes. Fast forward to the summer
of 2010 when both my computer and my back up hard drive are stolen
and the only finished copy of my novel lives in 4,000 folded paper
cranes, the shadow of thousands of hours of work, the history of
my creative journey, remnants of a former self.
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Community:
(300 glued circles of tempered glass)
Everything is made from the same 118 known elements. What if
all those elements were once one, just one giant Something.
Let's say That Something was an enormous sheet of glass but It
was lonely because It was all that Was. So it shattered, broke
into trillions upon billions of little pieces so it could
experience itself as infinite possibility; as a solar wind, a
ponderosa pine, a human being. And we're all just jagged pieces
of broken glass with our sharp parts that can cut deep, but we
can also laugh and love and bump into each other; find the
pieces that fit and hold onto those as best as we know how. And
with the fault line of experience, something shattered becoming
solid again can reflect the gift of light more brilliantly than
without, we need contrast to see, a shadow to rise from, we are
more beautiful broken.
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Photo by Anthony Camera |
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Photo by Anthony Camera |
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Photo by Anthony Camera |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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Photo by Tony Gallagher |
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