Statement

When in Rome (studying abroad), I was obsessed with wrapping things using tape or plastic: statues, walls, a fountain, and eventually my body. A Part of Me was inspired by sculpted marble drapery on statues with reference to Venus de Milo.

This carcass manifested a secondary form as, A Part of Me Too: an installation using video as the light source to project an animated furry texture on the wrappings, arranged to construct a shadow illusion of a monster from my childhood nightmares. I was channeling Plato's Allegory of the cave and studying slow motion movements and fight or flight paralysis, as seen in nocturnal animals such as the sloth.

Backstory:
Imagine that you are camping in the Amazon Rainforest. You wake to darkness and the sound of canopy debris crackeling, spaced one snap (pause), then another - as though a predator is sneaking up on you. Flashlight in hand you very slowly and quietly unzip your tent to investigate... You power on your flashlight to discover a sloth reaching its three claws toward you, in slow motion... like that feeling in a dream, when you can't move or scream, but time is amplified, seemingly expanded and dramatic.