2010
DRAWINGS
graphite on archival Arches Aquarelle watercolor paper
7 H × 10 W in (17.78 H × 25.4 W cm) each
series of 32 drawings
SOUNDSCAPE
computer generated sound with speech to text voice "Vicki"
30 minute loop
Spontaneous Narratives explores the narrative potential and emotional vulnerability of scrolling through one's spam email subject headings. The text in this series was derived solely from subject headings of junk mail received in the month of June 2010 while in residence at Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, NY. The carefully hand drawn text emulates the typography of the monospace font "Monaco Regular". The chosen groupings resonate poetically in the traditions of the Cut-up, Spoetry, and Flarf while maintaining a linear order according the timestamp of each email. The soundscape is a linear roller coaster of cheerful optimism and paranoid aggression read by the deadpan Speech to Text voice of "Vicki".
Spontaneous Narratives explores the narrative potential and emotional vulnerability of scrolling through one's spam email subject headings. The text in this series was derived solely from subject headings of junk mail received in the month of June 2010 while in residence at Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, NY. The carefully hand drawn text emulates the typography of the monospace font "Monaco Regular". The chosen groupings resonate poetically in the traditions of the Cut-up, Spoetry, and Flarf while maintaining a linear order according the timestamp of each email. The soundscape is a linear roller coaster of cheerful optimism and paranoid aggression read by the deadpan Speech to Text voice of "Vicki".
Project support provided by Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Program’s Pollock–Krasner Fellowship
Special thanks to Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence artist mentor Joan Snyder
