“I began this project in early April, and it is now a time capsule of sorts. When Covid began, I felt like I fell into a hole and now feel a little ambivalent about climbing out at all. Perhaps there was something to learn in that hole…did I learn it?” Chapter 1: Distraction – April …
“In the beginning there was Language, Chaos and A Wise-fool. Language, Chaos and A Wise-fool came together and decided to have a child and the child they had was named Pidgin. Pidgin was born in the deep red earth close to the earth’s core and from the moment it came into the earth and climbed …
“This is a glass globe that I’ve made during my 2019 UrbanGlass fellowship. Inside the glass are homegrown oyster mushrooms that, during the infusion process, became burnt, congealed, disintegrated, and inflated from the molten glass lava. I look at these globes as I imagine the ever-growing, ever-inflating universe. The WMAP satellite (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe), …
A key of light,From outside of here and this, stabs,Announcing of translationof possibility into fact. this is a story of a thing that happened which youprobably forgot. Zing zinnnnng… Zing zing zinnnnnnng Do you remember Crazy frog? What a free agent! What was he even advertising? nothing. He was just *transcendent frog*… Slipped thru a hole. Communicated,to us, through a shiver: …
“Last month I said that I had stopped counting days. I did, that’s true. But not because I don’t fill out my agenda anymore (I am grateful for still having a job), or because I am able to fall asleep only at 5 o’clock in the morning (luckily I have no problem with insomnia), or …
Online, a work by artists Francheska Alcantara and Alicia Grullón, is an active meditation on connection and its challenges during a global pandemic. Shot in the Bronx where both artists are based, the piece looks at two subjects arriving at and sharing space through play. Attempting to fly a kite together, the piece becomes a …
“Recently, I keep remembering a building that I visited last year in Beijing. It’s located at the center of this metropolis. The building is like what Arthur Clark has described a “Big Dumb Object” within its surroundings. I can’t imagine how spectacular it appeared to be; the tallest building when it first stood up in …
“For more than ten years, my projects have reflected on the need to rehabilitate space. In such a practice, the notion of space is observed, understood, and re-presented through the rigidity and absence of its fragments; no longer a container of events reified by objects, but a meaningful subject in its own right. My three-part …
