After working to make pieces larger and larger to see if I could grab the viewers entire attention, at the artist residency at Yaddo I installed the whole studio with bits of white and brown cut cardboard from the kitchen recycling. With no car, no power tools and nothing but an exacto knife I set to work. This was an attempt at pure brain manipulation, to see if I could make an interior space feel calm and familiar. In April 2011 I significantly expanded and installed this piece at Box 13 Artspace in Houston for the Texas Biennial 2011.
Cut-up cardboard from kitchen recycling in the Yaddo artist residency studio, 45 feet long
Detail of corner where pieces start to fall apart
Detail, made from cut up cardboard boxes from the kitchen recycling
Detail of the cut pieces from cardboard boxes
Detail, where pieces are falling and poking out
Detail, pieces fall apart and get organized
Detail across back wall and out the door, snowy outside Yaddo studio
This piece was expanded to over 100 linear ft, it’s 9 ft high — for the Texas Biennial in April 2011, and installed at Box13 Artspace in Houston
A long walk thru cardboard
“A long walk thru cardboard” detail of cut cardboard pieces, each cut from boxes and adhered to pvc mesh
