As long as I’m expiring, I must be alive.
& as long as I’m living, I must be inspiring.
When I cease to inspire, I will expire.
And life will go on or it won’t.
Cabinet of Curiosities
This Cabinet of Curiosities in an installation displaying a collection of works by the artist. Each artifact or sculpture is a visual display of a: completed work, documentation of a developed idea or performance, or a work or idea which is in progress. This Cabinet was created for the fall semester’s final review boards, in order to critique and discuss various ways to further develop concepts and skills in the near future.
Verismo: A modern reinactment of the wedding scene from Mozart’s Opera, Don Giovanni. A performance directed by Robbi Couris and Brooke Scibelli, of a May Pole Dance, a folk tradition celebrating new birth.
A collection of Iron-rich Metamorphic rocks, Belize Barrier Coral Reef, Red Wood, driftwood, and the evolution into wire wrapped jewelry.
A sculpture about The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and the philosophies of Nietzsche
An electronic cyber flower garden, controlled with Capacitive circuits triggering lights and sounds.
The study of pedestrian movement captured at various moments of time and in space - forced together into a reflected shadow of puzzlement.
A basket constructed of shattered eggs.
A drawer of objects of Pleasure and Pain- documentation & reflection of performance “Rhythm 00” by Brooke Scibelli and Monica Chiang- a homage to Marina Abramovic’s “Rhythm 0” in the 1970’s
“Possible Side Effects”: a medicine canister with sound clips of ‘possible side effects’ from commercials for prescribed medicines.
Documentation photographs of an installation from October 2010. Exploring the dimensions and possibilites of lighting sculptures, and transforming a space.
(4 photographs)
Photo credit: Julie Chen

