The piece represented above, Line and Point: Disease Cell, will be on view at Curious Matter in Jersey City, New Jersey as part of their Poison exhibition April 5 - May 17, 2009.
This piece explores growth and collection. The blob growths/collections of value points at the end of each stick function both individually, as tiny, singular paintings on a stick, and as individual points within the whole. I wanted to build a spherical painting using a three-dimensional structure and to explore the dialogue between line and point in physical space. Is the piece linear or spherical, a painting or a sculpture?
I've worked mostly two-dimensionally since 2003. I started to get interested in what was going on on both the front and the back of the work I was making and saw the sphere as a way to explore that interest.
I connected the idea of poison with disease. At age 11 I was diagnosed with Osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease predominantly characterized by frequent fractures. Implicit and explicit attitudes against disease and disorder abound. Is disease a fully negative, poisonous thing or are there points when it can be generative? The piece functions as a large-scale model of an imaginary cell or molecule.
I'm working on a Line and Point series. The goal is to make at least 20 pieces exploring the idea.
Line and Point: Disease Cell, Styrofoam, wood, paint, 5 x 5 x 5".
