mixed media: acrylic, cnc wood, resin, beads, cloches, mp4 players, video, headphones

There is a desire to open this curious cabinet, to place the candy-necklace linked earpieces on your head — a desire for a mysterious story to unfold just for you. When you look in this mirror, you see yourself as you appear on the other side, you see the hints of what lurk within the cabinet and beyond, in the inky blackness. Perhaps a whole universe of bubbles and candy and drippy, sticky, sweet. Just follow the sound of her voice, just let go, close your eyes, and follow the tingles into the ooey gooey deliciousness.

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Utilizing Pepper’s Ghost techniques, I have placed three cloches which I fitted with plexiglass interior walls to reflect the video from three mp4 players for which I have built an enclosure. The enclosure includes velvet, felt, resin bubbles, clay beads, and a few found objects (ice cream trinket, etc). The enclosure sits atop a wood chest like a cloud filled landscape, and the chest is covered in art nouveau wall paper, which I hand detailed and augmented with silicon ears within resin frames. With several nods to the Victorian period, I ‘theme’ anachronistic technology such as the wireless headphones and their wireless charging base.

Above this curio cabinet and cloches filled with ghosts, hangs the mirror with Sister Dawn — I designed and cut her out in wood, then painted and coated her in resin before mounting with the addition of LED light strips.

My poem includes some of my favorite tofugo, Japanese onomatopoeia — ones that cause tingles and a rush of joy when heard. As with all of my audio, I recorded on my binaural ‘ear’ mics well suited for ASMR — intimacy at a distance.

sample, best with headphones: