This work, which is now on display
until May 2010 in the Annenberg
School for Communication at Penn,
is a result of four months of reading global news via Google reader, a
web-based aggregator, capable of
reading Atom and RSS feeds online
or offline. Based on the frequency
of people's names being written, I
started collecting names based on
the first letter of their first name.
I interpreted the names graphically
based on appropriated images found
on different news sites. After printing
each of the illustrations on newsprint,
I recreated a street art/propaganda context by wheat pasting each one
to a wooden panel in a grid form, arranged alphabetically by the first
letter of the person's first name.
These information graphics, which
act as deeper investigations of everyday information, enable viewers to reassess the news with which they are presented. Being able to identify certain figures and not others can either leave the viewer frustrated or satisfied with his or her
own level of awareness. Either way, it
is not humanly possible to be aware of everything going on in our ever-changing and complex world.
(96.75x97.25 inches; Newsprint, Wheat Paste, Birch wood)
I designed the calendar for the
month of August 2007. Most of
it is collage with cut-outs of the
letters A-U-G-U-S-T out of various magazines. The bottom spells out
two thousand seven, embossed on
the paper using letterpress type.
Magazines, Typewriter,
Foam Board, Letterpress
Mind map opens the viewer’s
eyes to the numerous meanings
and evolution of the word “green”.
The strings add another level of connections. Words spill onto the
wall in order to show that the map
is endless.
String, Foam Board
I made a series of décollage works
using 200+ printed propaganda posters from different cultures through history. I wanted to allude to Jacques Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella’s ripped posters from the 50’s, and the comment they were making about large-scale color ads at that time.
Ripped Photocopies and Print-outs