Drying My Laundry Print

This installation imitates, reflects on and recreates the qualities of water. Here the main image is “clothes” drying on a clothesline, dripping water and being blown by the wind. My “clothes” are made out of transparent rice paper pages filled with sumi ink and watercolor drawings and C-prints of the Chicago Humboldt Park Lagoon (which is clean, healthy and well preserved), of the Chicago South Branch River (not clean and not preserved, as a result of past disposals from factories and slaughter houses into the river), and of children drinking water. The images range from figurative to abstract, and create a flow of monochrome and color through transparent space of layered paper. Some of the drawings and C-prints are arranged into long sequences that resemble the flow of rivers to seas. One of these “rivers” starts from (or flows into) a book. These long strips of paper flutter in the wind (I use a fan). Some touch the ground, a few “flow” into glass vessels (wine glasses, jugs, bowls) placed on the floor. A few vessels are filled with water and a few are empty. The water is either transparent, or brown, or green, or sandy, or muddy. Sometimes the water rises up the paper and stains it in its’ own shade. White and green strings hang down, weighed by clothespins. They stretch under the glass bottoms of bowls and jugs, creating and illusion of long and narrow streams, creeks, and brooks. The paper is transparent like water and the light streams through it The art sequences are long like rivers The water is clear or dirty, transparent or muddy, brown, green, blue. The glass is transparent like water The artwork is reflected in the water and in the glass Wind ripples the paper, and sheets flutter, never at rest This installation is interactive. The audience is invited to get close and look through it, to walk through it and sit under it (I like the floor). But mainly, the audience is invited to just hang out in the space created by the artwork, similar to the way we sit on the rivers’ bank, just hanging out while taking in the environment with our senses.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.