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This piece is a stack of business-card sized white card stock, held together with red cotton ribbon and yellow thread, wrapped horizontally around the stack, which hangs vertically, and is about one and a half inches deep.
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This piece is a one and a half inch stack of 4 x 6 white cards, held together by a tangle of orange, green, pink and blue material: rubber bands, plastic twine, embroidery thread and thread. There is a clump of flourescent pink duct tape and orage plastic in the middle right, and some green and blue material bunched up along the right outer edge of the object.
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This piece is 4 x 6 inches, card stock about 1.25 inches deep, held together by green rubberband, blue and yellow crochet yarn, and clearish rd plastic, which bunches up on the left. The wrapped material bunches horizontally just above the halfway point of this vertically oriented wall scupture. There is a piece of white gaffer's tape stuck at a forty five degree angle over part of the bunched red plastic to the left.
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This piece is 4 x 6 inches, plus about 8 inches of pink plastic ribbon handing from the middle right of the card stock, which again is vertically oriented, with material binding it together wrapped around the center. The material wrapped here is red cotton ribbon yellow-orange crochet yarn, light pink plastic ribbon, and some loose white thread/twine. There's a clump of light, yellow green plastic along the left side of the piece, and then a bit of flourescent pink duct tape attached to the nexus of the light pink plastic ribbon, which reveals itself to be part of an unraveled hawaiian lai where it keeps its form.
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This piece is 4 x 6 inches, vertical orientation, with a thin red line of thread cutting across the top third of the surface. Below this are criss-crossed wrappings of light blue embroidery thread, and then a substantial mass of red plastic, some faded, hanging from the front, from a series of tucked ribbons along the lowest vertical wrapping, about a third from the bottom of the front surface. There's a white piece of paper stuck into the largest gather of red plastic, vertically centered, but slightly to the left of center horizontaly. At the very bottom of the long strands of red plastic ribbon hanging down, is a rectangle of folded flourescent pink duct tape.
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This piece, is vertically oriented, a stack of business cards, wrapped with kelly green embroidery thread and lemon yellow cotton thread. Tucked into the various wrappings is a series of antique paper strips, folded and placed diagonally, creating a scale-like effect. The incorporated paper fans out beyond the paper stack behind it. The stack is about an inch deep from the wall.
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This 4 x 6 inch stack has a greater density of wrapped material, mostly in the pink range, taking up the middle third of the front surface. There's red plastic toward the top, lighter bubble-gum pink plastic across the middle, with a wrinkled tail hanging down on the right side and a red plastic that has faded to clear, wrapped across the bottom third. The effect of the partially faded bottom piece just described is almost like a red and pink tie dye. Under the clear part, there's some red embroidery thread, two strands, hanging down about 4 inches below. Just below the red plastic along the top is a bright yellow tube that begins toward the center and then wraps around to the right, along the side. There's also some white twine loosely threaded and some flourescent pink duct tape, mashed up and slightly dirtied, among the wrappings, as well as a bit of the bubblegum pink plastic still in the form of a hawaiian lai just to the right side of the form.
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This piece is not a wrapped stack of card stock, but a series of light yellow green plastic strips piled and overflowing to obscure the object underneath, which, upon closer inspection, is a wooden block with several colored rubberbands wrapped around it horizontally. The overflowing plastic ribbon falls of the right side of the form, and hangs down about five inches from the top.
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This is one of the smaller pieces, white paper looped repeatedly, creating the scale or a bubbly effect, held in place on the surface of a small 2 x 3
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This is one of the smaller pieces, white paper looped repeatedly, creating the scale or a bubbly effect, held in place on the surface of a small 2 x 3
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As in the last piece, this piece is white paper, looped similarly, but the material wrapping the paper in place is white mohair thread. The photograph is a closeup of the center of the sculptural form, and the overall form of the sculpture isn't shown.
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Like the last two described, this piece is looped paper, in this case held in place by a sage colored, light green-gray thicker thread. A deep blue tangle of ribbon is suspended in the wrapped thread on the right side of the form, roughly 2 x 3 inches.
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Nine pieces hanging on a white wall, at varying heights and widths apart. Their sizes range from 5 X 10 inches to 3 X 4 inches. The shot is from the right side of the wall.
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       Statement:
In these studies, I am exploring how three variables: stacked cards, wrapped twine-like artifacts and the number of times these are wrapped, interact and relate to one another as a functioning whole. This project follows two site specific installations from 2005* in which marks within an environment serve as landmarks for specific activities taking place there over time. The wrapped material comes directly from these project-events, and these studies explore potential correspondences for new manifestations.

*    Babson College, 'Room 204: Visual Traces of Groups at Work'
      Site Specific Installation, Sargent House Museum Site, Gloucester New Arts Festival.


       Titles:
1. 'miles to Ikea        X        plastic cups on the floor of my car      X      emails with cousin dylan,'       3 x 4 x 3"

2. 'photo-back tabs on my studio floor        X        tutoring sessions with rabih        X        emails with aunt mary'       5 x 6 x 3"

3.'time alone in hours        X        seeds planted        X        cups of tea brewed with same teabag'       5 x 6 x 3"

4. 'unplanned meetings with nancy        X        varieties of paper I own in stacks        X        trips to the studio'       5 x 10 x 3"

5. 'phone tag iterations with carolyn        X        conversations with laura        X        trips to visit ginny and annie kate'       5 x 10 x 3"

6. untitled study       3 x 4 x 3"

7. 'records stored in basement        X        times woken up with itchy eyes        X        instance of regret'       5 x 10 x 3"

8. 'mornings slept in        x        meetings attended        X        calls I've opted not to take'       5 x 10 x 5"

9.'impulses to clean the car        X        chapstick applied        X        kisses,'       3 x 4 x 3"

10.untitled study       5 x 6 x 3"

11.untitled study,       5 x 6 x 5"

12.untitled study,       3 x 4 x 3"

13. installation view,       3 x 4 x 3"

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