Feet First

After time spent in the ancient world,

I returned with the gift of

flight and fleet footedness.

So far, so high, my mouth ope

to kiss any cloud willing

I sat suspended, spinning

in the vagaries of the stars.

Then quick sky

became marble and

I fell feet first.

The title of the show, “Feet First” has many meanings. It’s how I live my life. I jump into uncertainty with less trepidation than most. The paintings and video installations in this series are inspired by a fall off of a roof deck in Athens, Greece, resulting in the shattering of my right heel bone last summer. The paintings began with representations of the feet and collaged images inspired from the MRI of the broken bone in the foot. Over time, the images move further from the fact of the fall and focus more on the pleasures around it, such as changes in gravities and the beauty in the generative ability of bone marrow to manufacture our blood cells.

The video installations are contemporary forms of Ex-Votos, offerings made to gods in the forms of anatomical shapes as supplications and thanksgivings for wellbeing or healing of the affected limb or organ. The sculptures represent the feet. The bone rings are casted and suspended in surgical netting. I activate the forms by mapping and projecting onto them technicolored light and moving images collected from my daily experiences. Like the paintings, the video projections celebrate the transformative joys around an injury.

Exhibit Dates: 9/12 - 10/6 2019

Opening Reception: 9/12 2019 6-8pm

Spillway Collective

Crane Arts

1400 N American Street

Philadelphia PA