Recombinant Histories
2008
Woodblock on Paper with Steel and Wire
Room Dimensions 18'x20' with 11' cieling

Built for the August 2008 New Member show at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. For this show I started with a found object, a huge, unwieldy steel display rack. Immediately, I envisioned this structure interwoven with paper, as a sort of representation of history. History is neither linear, nor cyclical, it bends in on itself like a mobius strip. The framework is woven and layered with long strips of woodblock prints. The works on paper featured in the piece have been fragmented from their original incarnations to be assembled in a cryptic pattern, representing the fragmented narrative code of failed social movements.