2011-2012
Ben Harding’s Voice
In this installation I began with some of the imagery from Speaking with Stones (2009)- in particular the image of Ben Harding’s Voice. In this installation I chose to emphasize the abstracted representation of language. I extended the triangles from the wall into the space by making an inchoate form out of thin black line. I used tape to extend the drawing onto the floor. I also cut up the original text and painted the words on vellum, reconstructing them in a random order like fragments from a poem. The three dimensional structure gave form to the “ruff language” described in the text.
2012 | Greencastle, IN
Peeler Art Center Gallery, DePauw University
This installation was the second iteration of Ben Harding’s Voice. In this version, I chose to contextualize the imagery and leave the text as it appeared in the original Davy Crockett Manual (1836). I made the pages larger than life and extended part of the image off the page. I also imagined a story for Ben Harding and added a variety of objects that related to the invented tale. There are all kinds of visual relations between the abstract forms representational imagery on the page and in space.
2011 | Purchase, NY
