Get Me Out (Of This) (2010)
installation
Get Me Out (Of This) is actually 3 separate pieces combined into the 4th, a site-specific installation which acts as a slight psychological profile of my struggle of living in New Hampshire and reaching out towards the outside world. Having been in New Hampshire for most of my life, I have a heavy love/hate relationship with it (generally the “love” can be replaced with “putting up with”). I don’t particularly try or want to stay here but it seems to keep happening. I have things I like and dislike about the area and find myself frustrated pretty often here though I do actively wonder about my own hang-ups with geography and how much my actual physical location truly affects my psychological state. Much of this stems from travelling overseas starting from the time I graduated high school and trying to travel (& occasionally live outside the US) while working as an artist for at least 12 years afterward yet subsequently finding myself still in my technical hometown (though I was born in Los Angeles, I was raised in NH). I did plant myself rather firmly in the area after being one of the founders of the now-defunct ellO gallery&shop in Portsmouth, NH, a place which also qualified as “love/hate” yet it did become a kind of “place within a place”, removed yet part of the community. I have an obsession with trying to make myself a type of global citizen, someone who transcends typical geography by either moving though the world physically or perceptually through research and awareness. I do feel my greatest struggle comes with the everyday routine of life and trying desperately to find alternate routes through the tragicomedy of living. Installed at Buoy Gallery, Kittery, Maine, US.
installation
Get Me Out (Of This) is actually 3 separate pieces combined into the 4th, a site-specific installation which acts as a slight psychological profile of my struggle of living in New Hampshire and reaching out towards the outside world. Having been in New Hampshire for most of my life, I have a heavy love/hate relationship with it (generally the “love” can be replaced with “putting up with”). I don’t particularly try or want to stay here but it seems to keep happening. I have things I like and dislike about the area and find myself frustrated pretty often here though I do actively wonder about my own hang-ups with geography and how much my actual physical location truly affects my psychological state. Much of this stems from travelling overseas starting from the time I graduated high school and trying to travel (& occasionally live outside the US) while working as an artist for at least 12 years afterward yet subsequently finding myself still in my technical hometown (though I was born in Los Angeles, I was raised in NH). I did plant myself rather firmly in the area after being one of the founders of the now-defunct ellO gallery&shop in Portsmouth, NH, a place which also qualified as “love/hate” yet it did become a kind of “place within a place”, removed yet part of the community. I have an obsession with trying to make myself a type of global citizen, someone who transcends typical geography by either moving though the world physically or perceptually through research and awareness. I do feel my greatest struggle comes with the everyday routine of life and trying desperately to find alternate routes through the tragicomedy of living. Installed at Buoy Gallery, Kittery, Maine, US.
