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The image shows the left wall. There are seven lights focused on the wall at where one would expect a painting. The stories are engraved into the wall at different heights. Some at the highest points and others at the lowest points of the wall.
Left Wall
Mixed Media
2022

In 2022, a month before this show, I placed wall installations in 15 local businesses. The works were inserted into the walls of these establishments, creating lights and noises incongruous to the environment they inhabit. Most people will have walked by these artworks, ignorant of the magical experience right next to them. For the very few who saw the installations, a small enchanting moment invited them out of their environment and into an instance of questioning. These junctures of inquiry are of great interest to me. The invasive artworks created brief seconds of unexpected art viewing, blurring the line between when we expect to be looking at art and when we are operating within
everyday life.

I play with the moments between our realities: where the ground shifts beneath our feet, and we find ourselves suddenly transported into a different world, where the extraordinary makes us question what we believe to be actual. The existence we define for ourselves curates our experiences around us. In this circumstance, many did experience these improbable moments of intervention.

This exhibition gave those who missed the art a moment to read about the spectacle outside their perception of the prior month. The words you will read or listen to are the voices of the secret keepers who have watched the art being discovered. Maybe some of you will recall some of these places and have experienced some of these moments. Then again, perhaps you won’t.