. i n s t a l l a t i o n s
My mixed media installation projects from 1991-1998 were conducted as intuitive process investigations into site specificity, spatial narrativity and elemental materialism. Each project dealt with unique opportunities for the generation of a critical dialogue on the consciousness of vulnerablity related to the sociocultural context which surrounded the project venue locations, associated events and exhibition organization.
Naciendo en los Bosques/Being Born in the Forest (1995) was an installation project conducted though the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno in Cuenca, Ecuador. The project’s installation foci built upon the literary notions of Pablo Neruda’s, "Naciendo en los Bosques" as a platform for a material-based dialectic addressing the vulnerability of the familial and the natural worlds as they intersected with the compromised status of the unique ecologies of the Ecuadorian Andes, highland cloud forests, Amazon and Occidental rainforests. Events which extended this museum project included a series of lectures on ecological art and activism at Universities, community-based and environmental NGOs in Cuenca and Quito.
Familia cognoscere (1996) was an installation project conducted in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland. The installation project coincided with the approaching culmination of the dataphase of the human genome project at NIH in 1996. The project worked with the NIH Clinical Center Art Program for the strategic exhibition of this installation which brought together image and object as mediating artifacts between scientific/clinical paradigms, familial memory and the immediacy of vulnerabilities in the clinical center environment.
Beyond Fear… (1996) was a collaborative installation project whose intent was both documentary and emotive in relation to the state of human rights and public health projects critical to refugee assistance in the Ixil Triangle region of Guatemala in the middle 1990s. The three creative collaborators (TImothy Weaver, Katie Kaulbach and Jeff Writer) on the project worked with the NGOs Water for People and COMENSA (in Guatemala) as volunteers on in-country water and health projects in the returning refugee communities of the Ixil Triangle – the most hard hit region during the 1980-90s indigenous genocide/civil war. These collaborators also synthesized documentary and creative materials to realize the installation exhibition for this project. The project intent was to work as a foci in the Denver region to bring together human rights/community assistance volunteers, engineers, NGO aid workers and testimonials for continued consciousness raising, involvement and support for the Ixil Triangle water and health projects.
Recent project venues for these works:
1996
"Familia/cognoscere", National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center Galleries, Bethesda, MD
"Beyond Fear: Reflections on Water and Health Projects in the Ixil Triangle", (with The Aesthetic Recovery Project), Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
1995
"Naciendo en los Bosques/Being Born in the Forest", Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador