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Description:
This installation includes a handmade fiber chrysalis that hangs from the gallery ceiling. It is seven feet high by four and a half feet in diameter. It consists of five spiraling panels sewn together and structured with wire. It occupies a gallery space that is twenty two feet long by twelve feet wide.

There are two simultaneous video projections into this fiber cocoon that activate the interstitial space as the transformative gesture of the chrysalis. The video projectors are at apposite ends of the gallery space. There are two video sequences projected into this cocoon. One involves baby fish in a fish hatchery obsessively jumping at the metal grill at the end of a rectangular pool. The other video was recorded from the perspective of a wheel chair in a nursing home, with the occupant of the wheel chair periodically, and unknowingly, putting their hand over the lens of the video camera. The gallery environment is filled with the sound of rushing water recorded with the fish at the hatchery.

Exhibited:
Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California from September 3 through October 9, 2004.
The Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, June 2005.
The Fine Line Art Center, Kavanagh Gallery, St. Charles, IL, September 23 – November 18, 2005