The Unplace

The Unplace, is a series of actions at Open Wabi, an artist residency located in a 100 year old furniture factory building in rural Ohio. The installations comprise a heuristic explication of place, dwelling and what happens when that is uprooted. Rather than simply being placeless, having no-place or being without-place, Un-place implies loss. The prefix ‘un-‘ denounces absence, lack reversal, the cancellation of an action or state of being; it indicates deprivation, separation or reduction to a lesser state.

That Which Once Was, Will Be Again, 15 x 6.5 x 1 feet, 630+ bricks and hot-pressed foil

Some Kind of Way, 6 x 25 feet x 3.75 inches, 1,000 bricks and hot-pressed foil

From In Here, To Out There, sizes variable, projection, 630 bricks and sky

From In Here, To Out There, sizes variable, digital photographs, 630 bricks and sky

It was important to make a metamorphosis, to make walls and bricks, elements of agency, into something uncanny and strange, to refer to the condition of dispossession and displacement that occurs when places are abandoned.

Real News, Fake Wall, 10 x 20 feet, cardboard bricks and found illuminati wall

The materials and installation spaces were found through surveillance of the abandoned factory and ruins, and liberated from their point of orientation to examine an extinct place. Here the original is abandoned and the mysterious and ecstatic truth is reached through fabrication and imagination to create a place that strangely resembles a fantasy of our own.
Artist in Residence at Open Wabi, Fredericktown, Ohio 2017

Patch to Feel at Home, 1.5 x 3 x 1 feet, 25 bricks, hot-pressed foil and lucky Icelandic krónur coin

Patch to Feel at Home, 1.5 x 3 x 1 feet, 25 bricks and hot-pressed foil