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(even more) 401Forever Young

 

On-going Projects:

'America, Thanks for More Culture' (An Int'l Thanksgiving)
Description: Held on the third Thursday of November, this holiday celebrates American culture that has been integrated, appropriated, or transformed into others' lives. The manner of celebration varies between locations.

 

 

 

 

 

'Alcatraz: Destination Prison'
Description: Proposal to turn Alcatraz Island into a maximum security prison for celebrities. Unlike most operating prisons, Alcatraz: Destination Prison would be a site of constant tourism. Visitors could visit their favorite bad-boys and girls in their natural habitat: making a film, recording an album, or penning their thoughts (all royalties of works produced on Alcatraz during a prisoner's stay would go to support the facility). Visitors could eat at the Alcatraz Cafe that serves seasonal organic fruits and vegetables harvested by inmates.

 

 

 

 

 

'Dump Cycle'
Description: Proposal to turn Livermore, CA into a national garbage site with it's own stop on the coming high-speed rail between L.A. and San Francisco. The dump would allocate material resources to develop its own fabrication plant, tourist center, and space launch site. Answering the next generations' concerns about waste removal, 'Dump Cycle' suggests the possibility of looking deep within space, rather than ourself.

 

 

 

 

 

'Web Nexus'
Description: Comparison of visual conventions of popular websites. 'Web Nexus' operates as a library of the multiple presences I maintain throughout my internet life. URL

 

 

 

 

 

'For $450,000 I Will Tell You 'I Love You' and Then Fake My Own Death'
Description: Self-explanatory performance.

 

 

 

 

 

'Forever Young' inscription written by scrubbing the dirt from a highly trafficked sidewalk in San Francisco's Tenderloin.

 

 

 

 

 

'To Throw A Coin Into a Tar Pit and Make a Wish as If Throwing Into a Wishing Well'
Description: Self-explanatory peformance, La Braea Tar Pits, Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

 

'Zeuxis' installation that recreates a bird's visual experience as it approaches a pane of glass. 'Zeuxis' parallels the grecian myth to a viewer's experience of discerning art.

 

 

 

 

 

'4 Way Escher' digital collage

 

 

 

 

'Binocular Vison' digital collage

 

 

 

 

 

'Churchshitler' installation, San Francisco. Using the dialectic relation between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hilter as a formal metaphor to resituate invasive pigeons within an urban evironment toward fertilizing efforts. (Installation detail)

 

 

 

 

 

Click Here for 'Dirty Ol Days'

 

 

 

 

'If a Heart Fell From a Window' graphite on paper.

 

 

 

'Canoa/Kenu' sculpture, University of Washington, Seattle (photograph by Garret Wilkerson). Aluminum canoe with excised logos from Native and American cultures that can be viewed from land and water, respectively.

 

The Cano/Kenu to Canoe walking tour traces the evolution of canoe uses through representations found throughout the city of Seattle.

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'Sweat Shop' 2004, NikeTown, Seattle,WA. Six hour performance of running in place collecting sweat, wearing exclusively Nike apparel Documentation (collected sweat)