These small light shows feature remote controlled smart LED’s in laser engraved boxes affixed to the city plinths, lightpoles, and bridges with rare earth magnets. Different arrangements of the lights were installed around central Denver over a period of 3 days and 3 nights. The public seemed to mostly accept these mysterious apparatai which have no clear purpose, the boxes might have intimated a technological mystery that might dismissed as civic infrastructure. Possibly they seemed as small glimpses into the future, anticipations of some next social control: a block chain or materialized cloud; a surveilance device or an intermediary between us and the network, matters that are perhaps none of our business or beyond our expertise.
Wagner Group is an ongoing project that approaches the revivalist conservatism of the new cold war by creating an encounter between the public and a set of modified objects. The purpose is to test the boundaries of free speech in the context of anti-Russian sentiment, and to break the codes of conduct customary to such theaters. Aiming to put the obscenities of ideology in the cross-hairs and its puppetry on display, the work is a pantomime of newspeak that “forgets itself” on its way to delivering its propaganda.
Bodka, 2023, enamel, bottles, led lights.
Forgotten Heels, 2023, engraved shoes, South Broadway, Denver, CO.
Passenger, 2023, engraved doll, Denver bus.
Forgotten Purses, 2023, engraved purses with engraved tokens.
Lost Shoes, 2023, engraved shoes.
Twin Stalin, 2023, engraved stones.
Vaviela Fan Club, 2023 24 engraved Magna Tiles, acrylic paint.
Grievance, 2023, spray acrylic, found plywood, attachments.
Solicitors, 2023, spray acrylic on plywod, wood stake, attachments, featuring Denver citizens.
A Public Installation of Art Objects
Braod Daylight is an collection of improvised public works where the artist “leaves something behind” at a carefully selected location. Without attribution by the audience, the artist remains invisible to all but a few who witness the swift delivery. Denver has a certain “post card feel” on which the work is meant to intervene. Where the public commons is meant to be challenged, the opportunity is to produce elastic dialogical relationships in which creativity can collide with hyper-controlled realities, and to interrupt commuters and park dwellers alike with the unexpected and unexplained. Existing outside the usual confines of market exchange and the gallery, these objects confront these forces with chance human connections and the free movement of interchange.
Tap, 2021, found faucet, feathers, nylon, attachments.
Five Points neighborhood, Denver.
Troopers, 2021, candy mould.
5-points neighborhood, Denver.
Gold Plated Post, 2021, found plate, screw.
Installed in the 5-points neighborhood, Denver.
Cracked Bat, 2021, found baseball bat, bolts.
Golden Triangle district, Denver.
Victories, 2021, trophies, bricks, attachments.
War Memorial, Colorado State Capitol, Denver.
Eyes Wide Shut, 2021, found costumes.
Civic Center Park, Denver.
Surveyor, 2021, found toy, magnet, attachments.
Larimer Square, Denver.
Monument to Square Teeth, 2021, teeth moulds, magnets.
Larimer Square, Denver.
Little Peeps, 2021, found peeps, wine decanter, magnet.
Millenium Bridge, Denver.
Perfectly Good Scissors, 2021, found scissors, magnet.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.
Extra Baggage, purse packed with chains.
Cherry Creek Neighborhood, Denver.
Bowlers, 2021, trophies, light stand, magnets.
Pedestrian Bridge over I-25, Denver.
Lost Purse, 2021, found purse, glow stick.
Union Station, Denver.
Downgrade, 2021, found phone, duct tape, embossed label.
Union Station, Denver.
Pinwheel, 2021, found ornament, solar powered motor, magnets, acrylic sheet, attachments.
Installed at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver.
Degentrification, 2021, belt, fanny pack, straws.
Five Points Neighborhood, Denver.
Second Pinwheel, 2021, found toys, pinwheel, acrylic sheet, solar powered motor, attachments.
Larimer Square, Denver.
Second Tap, 2021, found faucet, plastic jewels, nylon, attachments.
Five Points Neighborhood, Denver.
Mermaids with Treasure, 2021, found toys, plastic jewels, glass bowl, machine wheel, magnet, water.
Larimer Square, Denver.
Rack, 2021, found towel rack, dog collar, magnet, attachments.
Highlands Neighborhood, Denver.
Chains on Bridge, 2021, chains with magnets and attachments.
Confluence Park, Denver.
Lost Drone, 2021, found drone, case.
Union Station, Denver.
Dirty Little Hand, found doll hand, magnet, attachment.
Larimer Square, Denver.
Puzzle, 2021, found metal puzzle, magents, ball bearings.
Millenium Bridge, Denver.
A collection of hand made toys and games
Get Smart, 2020, paper, ink, color pencil, pressure transfers.
The Book of Knowledge, 2010, handkerchief, paper, color pencil, ink, glass top, lens, mirror shard, bookbinding thread, book cover.
Manjiro’s Passage, 6 x 8, ink and color pencil on paper.
Birds of Prey, 2011, wood, masonite, veneer, pva glue, shellac, oil, collage.
Montebello, 2011, wood box, mirrors, stereo light, oil, veneer, masonite, wood, shellac, found ball, pva glue, acrylic sheet.
Game of Pieces, 2010, found paper, graphite, ink, color pencil, collaged reproductions.
Zoetrope (for Margaret), 2021, oatmeal tin, felt, acrylic sheet, ball bearing, steel rods, fasteners, enamel, mirror, reproductions on paper.
Binary Abacus, 2016, wood, brass rods.
Stereoscope (for Katherine), wood, sheet metal, acrylic sheet, clothes hanger, enamel, stereoscopic lenses, silver prints mounted on board.
Jacks and Bells, 2021, toy tires, bells, jacks, acrylic sheet.
Mutoscope (for Iola), 2015, modified film developing canister, slide viewer eyepiece, crank, battery, light bulb, sewing spool, enamel, digital reproductions.
Magic Lantern (for Robert), 2015, photocopy lens, slide viewer, bracket, glass, digital reproduction, wood.