I am your jar

The topic of my thesis is the exploration of record and its role in documenting temporary arrangements. With an emphasis on process, the act of recording is essential to capturing the ephemeral nature of the work. Record in this context means: photography, video, drawing, and writing as it preserves and contributes to the making of the work.

The term “arrangement” comes from the tradition of arranging flowers through touch, feel, a kind of intuition that is a form of mark-making through the arrangement of things that were once living in the world. Always in response to the specific space, the arrangements are an improvisation within the tight restraints of the borrowed space and time. The event of the installation creates the opportunity for intense production and focus as it happens all at once, the simultaneous and ongoing making and recording.