Fluffy Pom Pom Redecoration Project (1997-2002) represents part of an ongoing
interest in creating instructional works which invite the viewer to participate
in the construction and reinterpretation of art objects, science projects,
philosophical premises, websites, cultural precepts, bodily functions and
various other feats. These works utilizes a broad range of artistic practice
from painting and mixed media to computer imaging, video and installation.
I am interested the unstable multivalent status of contemporary cultural
products
(including electronic and art objects), specifically, how they shift in usage
and interpretation, from the scientific to the entertaining, the legal
to
the sensual, from the personal to the political, or from the aesthetic to
the instructional.
The “Fluffy Pom Pom Flemish Print Redecoration Project” originated
in 1997 as an installation of 15 reframed inkjet print editions ranging from
7.5" x 11.5" to 38" x 48," generated by the project,
installed with wall sconce, antique table and video monitor with instructional
video
12 minutes long. Each print resulted from a redecoration process involving
the distribution of colored pom poms across the surface of a suite of 18th
century Dutch prints previously decorating a colonial living room. There
is
an important aesthetic strategy developed for each composition based on the
print's subject matter. The resulting new compositions are then scanned and
digitally reprinted for hanging in a revitalized interior. Prints are reprinted
in editions of 10 using Iris Inkjet , Epson 9500 and Epson 1520. They are
signed, numbered and dated at the time of printing.