Tag: installation art

Scents of Place (the sweet smells and stinks of Maryland’s past and present)

Installation 2026
10′ x 40′ x 2′
wood, paint, paper, fabric, weather maps, multiple olfactory specimens including tobacco leaves, light, sound, interactive website.
Scents of Place is a pictorial Smellscape and olfactory installation about Maryland that invites visitors to explore the sensory dimensions of place through smell and memory. The work highlights how the sense of smell connects people to their environment, evoking personal and collective experiences related to the air we breathe. Photo: Ana Tantaros @side_a_photo

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School group at MCHC. Photo:Annie Howe

Luxury Goods

installation/performance 2023.
Post-consumer fur garments, paper, paint, ceramics, animal pelts, audio, 2 performers.
Luxury Goods is an installation activated by performance that explores humans relationship
with animals. The work reflects upon fur and other commodities related to social status and economic power.

The Last Gasp

Installation 2022
96″ x 96″ x 60″
Porcelain, glazed ceramics, audio (of ringing and busy phone), wooden side table, velvet drape.
Part waiting room, part mortuary. Nature is calling.

From Our Waist To Waste

Public Art Project 2022
Installation of multiple post-consumer garments with a performance workshop including a publication about textiles and fashion sustainability. The work considers the relationship between glamor and waste.

This mobile project was a part of Arlington Art Truck, Arlington VA. The Art Truck moved to different locations throughout Arlington for 2 months in Spring 2022. Curated by Cynthia Connolly.

Gateway Park, Arlington Virgina. Photos by Sue Wrbican.

Page 1 and 2 of the zine. Below is a performance/workshop and survey that the visitors were invited to fill out to add up how long the clothing they were wearing that day would last. Riso zine and garment timeline tags were designed by Laure Drogoul and printed by Sense of Press in Baltimore Maryland.

Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making

Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making(or the fruit of our convenience)
Site-specific installation, Maryland 2019
516″ x 120 x 180″
clear polyethylene #4 repurposed plastic, wood, filament and light The artwork is a spectacle of endless consumption and a reminder of how a material of our own design has become a staple of our environment and is rapidly transforming the natural world.

The installation juxtaposes the flora of the natural world, as evidenced in the lush plant life of Ladew’s Gardens, with an illuminated, ethereal hothouse of polypropylene vegetation-a human creation.

(dirty~clean)Cleaners

installation/performance 2019
neon sign, neon lighting, clothing rack, wire hangers, filament, collected used dry-cleaning bags, sound, 4 performers. The work is an installation by day and in the evening a participatory theatrical event. This installation, located in a gallery storefront, takes the form of a conceptual dry cleaner shop. Composed of thousands of low density polyethylene (the clear plastic used to package “clean” garments). The work reflects on the ubiquitous cleaners of our urban landscape and emphasizes the ever growing problem of LDPE plastic #4 and the use of perchloroethylene, a known toxin, to clean wearables.

(dirty~clean)Cleaners is activated with intermittent performative events. The installation considers the after-life of human made materials related to domesticity. During the performance, Sisyphean cleaning clerks endlessly fold, process and roll the ghosts of our laundry.