Airline to Heaven, Part I, is the first in a 3-part series that details a woman’s attempt to ascend to heaven on an airplane following her death. This piece, completed in 2006, serves as an overture to the series, introducing a set of characters who we follow in Parts II and III: the dog, the Luckycat, the dead birds and bunnies, and the “Hospital Heroine,” a woman in a diamond-patterned hospital gown. The animation will be presented as a full projection installation made with fabric, paint, wood, and projection material. Thank you to Peter Campus and Peter Clark.
Love in outer space and under water was created as a 4-channel animation piece for the South Bend Regional Museum of Art's 'Meet me on the Island' festival in summer of 2007. Thank you to Jason Lahr and the SBRMA.
Becoming Formless began as an ink line drawing on paper, drawn from the recent memory of a decaying mouse in my apartment building’s courtyard. The mouse was being eaten by maggots and was losing its middle portion, but its face was still visible and held an expression. I animated this drawing in two directions, going back in time to make the mouse more complete and breathing and forward in time to follow the mouse’s body as its form dissolved. This project is inspired by a Buddhist practice of meditation on the image of a decomposing corpse.
Airline to Heaven, Part II is an animation installation slated for completion in summer 2008. This clip represents an in-progress selection from the animation.
Central Europe Through the Eye of International Artists, Közép-Európa Nemzetközi Müvészek Szemével, editedby Beata Szechy, published by the Hungarian Multicultural Center, with an introduction by Dr. Geller Katalin
NYU MFA 2006, edited by Anthony Clune, Jen Piette, and Risa Puno, with an introduction by Nancy Barton, Department of Art & Art Professions, New York University, NY
