Digital Video, 2007
"Samplings
of the Magna Mater" is a concept video that consists of 125
back-to-back stills, each exactly two-seconds in length. Each
still is a unique, solid color panel. The color in each panel was
sampled from various photos 'of/from/pertaining to' the earth.
Photo subjects from which the color samples were selected include:
satellite images of the planet earth, Siberian terrain, Iceland,
Alaska, Kenya, flower gardens on Vancouver Island, Bermuda, rivers, red
and gray/blue clay, soil, dirt, rain forest, sunset, The World Islands
(Dubai), Honduras, foliage, etc... This video honors the purity
and beauty in the range of hues that mother earth miraculously bestows
on humanity's visual pallet.
Digital Video, 2007
"My Luck" was accepted into a juried art show called "Ignite" that was fire-themed.
This piece represents a demand for fire, which is underscored and intensified by its determined absence.
Destroyed in the Fire.
20 Tits, Arranged Alphabetically
Black & White 4X5 Polaroid Photos
Mounted and Framed, 2007
Each woman selected one word they felt represented who they are. That word was written across their chest in red lip stick, and they were photographed on a white backdrop.
Photos are mounted between black and clear plexiglass on white laminated board with a painted black wood frame.
Words selected by these women: animated, autonomous, bitchin', creative, dissident, fabulous, fast, humorous, loyal, warm.
Session 1
The Failure on Her Wedding Day
Digital Print, 2007
This is the first image in a forthcoming series.
Destroyed in the Fire.
Gallery: Civilization Is Malignant
Sculptural Installation, 2006
Creek rock, river bed clay, wild flowers, litter
This piece was created for an art show called "Saturate" that displayed work created on the theme of water.
The materials used in this piece were gathered over a series of day trips to the Little Kentucky River, which has a popular swimming hole about half way along its length that can be found on a back road in Trimble County Kentucky.
Mixed Media, 2006
Digital Photography, 2006
The photos in this gallery were taken at a George W. Bush protest in downtown Louisville next to the Kentucky International Convention Center.
Honestly, I can't remember if this protest took place in late 2005 or early 2006.
If you happen to know the date of this event, please send me an email!
Destroyed in the Fire.
Gallery: Junk Mail Intervention, Gallery 1
Junk Mail Intervention, 2005 - Present
Junk mail, free postage, markers
1. Tear junk mail up into pieces after receiving it.
2. Stuff the torn up junk mail into the "postage paid" return envelope.
3. Decorate the return envelope with drawings and messages.
4. Place parcel in mailbox so it will be returned to the company, at their expense.
Tip: Stuff the envelope with as much paper as possible to increase the parcel's overall weight. This tactic further increases the postage expense levied on the consumptive junkmailing corporation.
Mixed Media, 2004
Mixed media, 2004
Mixed Media (wood, vinyl, plastic, paper, paint and styrofoam), 2004
4-Channel Video Installation, February 2003
In 2003, I began experimenting with video as a meduim. I didn't have access to a camera, and was fascinated with vintage footage I kept finding in online archives. At the same time, I had recently discovered and started working with VJ software. To further my pursuit in new media, I had a computer custom built in January 2003. These videos are a combination of experimentation with recycled footage and VJ software.
This project was created for as a 4-channel video installation in 2003 that was part of a group show at the LAVA House. The event was called "Love and War".
Better quality videos to be added soon.
2-Channel Video Installation, 2003
This project was created for an environmentally themed show at The Kentucky Theater called "Destruction of Nature: Beauty vs. The Beast".
These two videos were created using vintage footage. The intention was to juxtapose A) humanity's systematic destruction of nature and living things with B) older images of timeless natural beauty that are being reduced to 'captured moments' in history.
Better quality videos to be added soon.
Print & web design, digital art, drawings
1998-2003
Print & web design, digital art, 1999-2003
Most of these photos were taken between the years 1998-2002. The exceptions to this date range are the portraits of Roea Wallace, which were taken in 2006.
Mostly photos from 1998-2000.
Photos taken for Photo 1 & Photo 2 classes at UofL.
Written Material, Research, and Presentations
The documents in the following section were written while I was pursuing my Master's Degree in Political Science at the University of Louisville from Fall 2004 - Spring 2006. Each bold section heading denotes the specific class for which the documents were created.
International Relations Theory
- Social Constructivism and Globalization (PDF)
- Power and Politics in Globalization (PDF)
- Incoherent Empire (PDF)
- Human Security and International Relations Theory (PDF)
Housing Development
- Portland Artist Relocation Program (PDF)
- Memorandum RE: Progressive Housing Policy (PDF)
- Journal (PDF) | Journal (Word)
- Class Final Paper (PDF)
- Housing and Coherent Development (PDF)
Neighborhood Planning Studio
Urban Planning and Housing Development of the Netherlands
This
class took a week-long trip to Amsterdam over spring break. Each day,
the class had a different agenda. We met with architects and urban
planners from Amsterdam, Delft, and Rotterdam. We took bike tours of
the city. We went on day-trips to various places, such as a man-made
island where new housing was being developed, touring Rotterdam with
their key urban planner, and visiting the planned community of Almere,
which is considered to be a suburb of Amsterdam. This class also met
with the leader of the Labor Party, who was also an architecture
professor, in the board room of the Dutch East Indies Company (a space
now under the control of the local university). We toured the socialist
housing Amsterdam School of Architecture museum (Het Schip)
with a self-proclaimed anarchist architect named Hein (he was about 70
years old), who was in the process of designing an intentional
community.
- Cultural Regeneration & Global Neoliberal Political Economies: Amsterdam – A Case Study (PDF)
This paper considers "creative class" policies, place-based mass tourism, and identity politics in the context of neo-liberal global political economies. - Class Journal (PDF)
This journal contains photos and accounts of the class trip to Amsterdam, along with critiques of the class' assigned readings. - Final: Comparative Analysis of Amsterdam to New York City (PDF)
Urban Design Studio
American Politics
- Midterm: The US Constitution and the Federalist Papers (PDF)
- Final: Policy Analysis of The Pledge Protection Act (PDF)
Politics Thru Film
- American History X Film Presentation with Photoshopped Prank Images of the Professor, Dr. Phil Laemmle (PDF)
- Presentation: 1960's Film History (PDF)
- A Face in the Crowd (PDF)
- Being There (PDF)
- Big Jim McLain (PDF)
- Bob Roberts (PDF)
- Casablanca (PDF)
- Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(PDF)
- Full Metal Jacket (PDF)
- Grapes of Wrath (PDF)
- Sands of Iwo Jima (PDF)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (PDF)
- Sullivan's Travels (PDF)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (PDF)
Directed Research Project
This
was required for graduation. The MA program gives students the option
to take fewer classes and complete a thesis, or take more classes and
complete a directed research project. I chose the directed research
project, which is essentially a shorter version of a Masters thesis.
This was a quantitative research project.
Other Documents
The documents and materials in the following section are not school-related.
My Grandmother's Death (Ellen DeCatherine Willhoite-Breeck)
- Eulogy for Nana (PDF)
I gave the eulogy for my grandmother at her funeral in September 2006. - Blog entry on experiencing my grandmother's death
Me, my mom, and my mother's boyfriend were with my grandmother the morning she passed over. It was an amazing, life-changing, spiritual experience. I wrote a blog entry about my experience, and how beautiful it was.
Research
- Alternative Art Spaces on the Web (PDF)
Short document that provides case studies on alternative art spaces.
- One Nation Under God: Operation Shock and Awe (PDF)
Statement written for installation and performance at the Louisville Visual Art Association's Watertower Gallery in 2005