one festival down…

​A quick peek at my piece for this weekend’s FireFish festival, in Lorain OH:

Further Uses of Spooky Rooms, pt. 2

With a week to go, the installation’s physical form is taking shape on the mental plane.

Further Uses of Spooky Rooms

 

IngenuityFest 2017 is looming, and I’m excited to be part of it.  Like last year, the festival will be held in the sprawling, (formerly) abandoned factory complex north of St. Clair Ave.  Somewhere deep inside is this room:

(it looks small, but the ceiling is quite high)

The furniture will have to go, of course.  And the light.  As for what will take its place, here’s a small preview:

emergence #3 preview

 

House Haunting

This weekend, for the third year in a row, I had the great pleasure of participating in Rooms to Let: CLE, in which a handful of foreclosed houses in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood were transformed into temporary artspaces.  I build a video installation around my animation Emergence #2.

beyond the black curtain

glowing things lurking in the corner

  

window + house paint = makeshift lightbox

 …and here, for your viewing pleasure, is the original animation:

 

Back to the Material Plane, pt. 4

The (more or less) complete installation!  I’ll have some video up soon of the zoetropes in motion.

IngenuityFest starts tomorrow at 5pm and runs through Sunday.


Back to the Material Plane, interlude

And now, a brief preview of Ingenuity 2016’s location: a vacant factory labyrinth on St. Clair blvd.  Very picturesque.  Very Cleveland.  The last photo is the site of my installation.


  

Back to the Material Plane, pt. 2

work in progress