Wallpaper, Coffee, Tea
Wallpaper surrounds us, forcing viewers to confront what we might ordinarily disregard. Wallpaper can transform the space it inhabits, creating a new context for thinking about and experiencing specific spaces.
An outhouse is a particularly fascinating site for a wallpaper intervention. The function, use, and experience of the structure evoke many of the same tensions that I explore in my work. The outhouse aims to screen private acts from the outside world, yet at the same time elicits a sense of exposure and vulnerability. Here, the cycles of containment, expulsion, and accumulation over time are laid bare.
In this site-specific installation, Entropy Filigree (Decomposition), the wallpaper pattern could seem almost sterile in contrast with the outhouse. Yet, rather than settling on this juxtaposition, I was drawn to the absurdity in the attempt to impose order on the space. I wanted to expose the degradation that would occur over time, the inevitability of deterioration, and find a new way to express beauty in entropy.
