Circulatory
96" x 17" x 24", cedar, drywall, audio amplification, steel screen, 2014.
installation view: I Am Logan Square Gallery, Chicago IL
Photography by Jessica Pierotti
Each cedar column contains the captured audio of the artists' heartbeats in this residual piece of Circulatory, 2012 at the Chicago Cultural Center. Installed amongst Austin Knierim's Linear Hierarchy of the Hippocampus: a bamboo grove springing from the hardwood floors of the gallery, visitors experience the heart resonating from the pillars. Pinard stethoscopes, metal cones used by physicians and midwives to listen to heart rhythms, were also available, enabling visitors to listen to each others' pulse.
Circulatory
96" x 17" x 24", cedar, drywall, audio amplification, steel screen, 2014.
installation view: I Am Logan Square Gallery, Chicago IL
Photography by Jessica Pierotti
Each cedar column contains the captured audio of the artists' heartbeats in this residual piece of Circulatory, 2012 at the Chicago Cultural Center. Installed amongst Austin Knierim's Linear Hierarchy of the Hippocampus: a bamboo grove springing from the hardwood floors of the gallery, visitors experience the heart resonating from the pillars. Pinard stethoscopes, metal cones used by physicians and midwives to listen to heart rhythms, were also available, enabling visitors to listen to each others' pulse.
Bohr's Luck
90" x 18" x 192", wood, lacquer, 2013.
installation view: Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL
It is believed that luck entered the English language as a gambling term, used to describe both desired and undesired outcomes of an unsettled matter. Today, the word’s connotation includes the allotment of luck: to have it, to lose it, and to find ourselves swayed by its happenstance. In Bohr's Luck, when confronted with the underside of a ladder, the audience has a moment to weigh the belief or suspension of belief in order to continue on their path.
Bohr's Luck draws its name from a story told of Neils Bohr, whose contributions to atomic and quantum mechanics won him the Nobel Prize in 1922. Remarking on the horseshoe hanging above Bohr’s office door, a visitor questioned Bohr’s belief in luck, to which he replied, “I’m told it works even if you don’t believe in it.”
Watertight
7.5" x 4" x 5", plaster, 2014.
installation view: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
photography by Kathryn Trumbull Fimreite
For Kathryn Trumbull Fimreite's The Pram Invitational Endeavor at the Hyde Park Art Center, Jesus Mejia and Ruth cast small boats of plaster, made by the hands of the artists. The purpose of the prams, as Fimreite expressed in her invitation to artists, is to create "small, utilitarian boats known for their workhorse efficiency—to symbolize a life experience. The resulting fleet becomes a tangible metaphor for community."
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