A Forced Hibernation
From the series:  Feeling/Being Foreign

Let's venture to a place of protected images.
The Images are upheld through the impurities in the atmosphere.
They allow for us to feel real and seek a place that is absent of them. 
My memory reverts to a place that seeks warmth. The Tale there is different. 
It does not inform where I am.  Maybe things will fruit later.

Paris Audition and September Song

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Both pieces are made of music scores that were being discarded by the Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik and Darstellende Kunst’s library collection.  Over the course of a year,  I meticulously deconstructed each score and reassembled the fragile bits of paper to create another type of composition.  Paris Audition, depicted on the right, originally a score of Beethoven piano sonatas, is comprised of hundreds of three dimensional rectangles that are sewn together and layered on top of each other creating a work that addresses the dimensionality, complexity, and time.  September Song, made from a score of orchestral works by Bach, was created as a response to Paris Audition. I intended for September Song to be a two-dimensional work with two sides, so that it may conceal and reveal Paris Audition.  The titles of these works are in reference to my personal narrative and are not derived from the original music scores that they are made of. 

Installation Images from Foreign Matter: A Narrative Account.  Ten Gallery, New Orleans, La. Solo exhibition in April of 2016.