Swimming to Inishkeel
Ekstasis
Concrete Republic
Traffic Island
Prison Farm

Watchtower
Katrina
The Dog Tail Wars
Empire/Umpire
Hostis
Body Fluid Bed
Hanging Creatures

Homeless Deaths  
Poster Project
Full Shackle
Sapa
Swollen Eye
Frontiers
Deed

Every Revolution
Forces
Boarder
Surveillance Chair
Suite
Cruise Control

Ostrich
The Big Silence
Asylum Screamed
Think No Evil
Belfast
Crisus

TRAFFIC ISLAND PRISON FARM

2010
Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA

The ideas for Traffic Island Prison Farm grew out of a project titled Lock Down where members of Good Children Gallery spent 48 hours locked in the gallery. I wrote continuously on 3’ wide by 10’ long sheets of paper then hung the resulting writings on the gallery walls. By the end of the two days I had filled all the walls in the back gallery. After the show I took the sheets of automatic writing and mined them for stories and ideas written over that period. These stories were then recorded as audio tracks and a corresponding drawing or sculpture was created. The audience could then listen to each story through headphones while viewing the piece.

The second component of Traffic Island Prison Farm was a series of prints that were created using a system of controlled and uncontrolled marks. For the controlled marks I created two woodblocks, a target and a shield. For the uncontrolled marks I took the target out and with the help of fellow sculptor and weapons expert Kenny Lantz shot the target with a 12 gauge shotgun and 40 caliber Smith and Wesson. For the shield I built a jousting stick with an angle grinder head. I then used the shield to protect myself from the jousting stick thus creating the uncontrolled marks. Both woodblocks were then printed and shown along side the videos of their making.

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