Sweating Liquids

Date: 1994-95

Multi-Media Installation

Dimensions variable

In a blue room, a flowing stream of worn white T-shirts, empties into a trough of water (24’x2’x1’), containing four monitors. Three shows a moving map of the Mississippi River, one showing the life cycles of a mosquito.
At the opposite end of the trough, a motorized hand goes off every few minutes to scratch the surface of the water, distorting the images on the screen. From the hand, four water spigots, in line drips to create steam onto four hot plates. Above the steamy atmosphere, hang empty white poly- propylene sand bags to fill the overhead space.

Installed at Franklin Furnace Archives, New York, NY
Installed at A.R.C. Gallery, RawSpace, Chicago, IL.

Detail: cascade of t-shirts into a trough of water

Detail: empty white sandbags hang from the ceiling above the other end of the trough, with faucets slowly dripping water on hot plates creating rising steam.

Detail: monitor showing the life cycles of a mosquito, and a motorized hand on a timer that scratches the surface of the water.

Detail: Images of dragonflies framed in water.