Sculptures and performance, 2014-15. Tempera, flour, water, and salvaged newspaper and newsprint.
Initially I made a disguise for a rock, thinking that a rock might want to hide sometimes, too, or to look like another rock for awhile. I made more, including one that accommodates my body, and others of various sizes. Rock disguises (for rocks and other bodies) is a series of papier-mâché sculptures—essentially “faux rocks”—made for actual and theoretical animate and inanimate bodies. Each disguise has at least one set of eye holes for the potential user(s). Made out of simple materials—flour, water, salvaged newsprint and newspaper, and tempera paint—the disguises are biodegradable and susceptible to the elements.
The work of New Materialist philosophers support the intuition that objects, like subjects, are dynamic and influential co-creators of the environment and human experience. (The Rock disguises may be onto something.) Rock disguises can be both humourous and honest; they can offer protection and are vulnerable; and they both respond to and suggest a world that is more than what it seems.
In the fall of 2015, Rock disguises (for rocks and other bodies) participated in Running with Concepts: The Geologic Edition, organized and hosted by Christine Shaw and the Blackwood Gallery. They also participated in SHOW.17 at Cambridge Galleries in the summer of 2017. The disguises are excited to announce their move to North Bay with the support of White Water Gallery in the fall of 2018.