I am but furniture…

I've been invited to show my works on paper at Jala Studio in Providence RI, opening February 24, 2024 at 6pm. The artwork will be on view for a while after that.

To be in the middle of making with brush and ink and writing witty, insightful and alluring posts about the exhibit of this work-in-progress, is to be torn between two media mindsets, translating form to paper and generating content in the digital realm. 

"I am but furniture" is not the title of this exhibit.  It's more a frame of mind, a moment of being, something said by a friend, in passing, about parenting. 

In response to this work another friend mentioned a short film titled "Interior Design"  by Michael Gondry, where a woman turns into a chair.  You can find clips of it online, but in that search you may also be directed algorithmically to less savory links, connecting women to furniture, to silence and to sexual aggression - so easily posted and communicated online.  A pervasive and horrible flesh eating virus.

Another friend suggested I title this work "Nesting" alluding to beginnings and endings; creating and recreating something feathered, fowled, rewoven.  It is too soon to say.

Right now as I craft this blog post and look for links I stumble upon this review about how a woman becomes furniture.  The review was written by Kate Zambrino who it turns out writes about art, motherhood and hoarding, all issues close to my life and work.

What is the allure of a chair?
Activist artist Doris Salcedo uses furniture profoundly in her work.
Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth does as well, to entirely different effect.

Why am I doing all this legwork and linking?  As an artist there is the making of the art and there is the letting other people know about the making of the art and there is the letting people know about the chance to see the art in person and not on a screen.  In other words, the marketing.

Now you know.

I hope to see IRL you at the opening or communicate through the many channels.

@w.a.v.e.l.a.d.y