Adorationland, Installation View
Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA, 2009
Astroturf, fabric, thread, lights, wood, sound-sensitive controller,
cd, player, and speakers
For reference, large lit form is 41.5" x 41.5" x 34".

Here, adoration does not reference a strict act of religion offered to god, but the reverence shown to a person or object through a mode of self-expression through the apparatus of sound and gesture. These works attempt to confirm the human side of religious practice. The protagonists in these Adoration forms are mega-churches who have reached celebrity-like status. Recorded from a sermon given at Saddleback church, sounds of applause, laughter and roar represent moments in which the attending bodies create one unified human voice. Our protagonist’s illumination fluctuates with these sounds and its followers respond in suit, pulsating organisms from within the buildings’ soft architectural skins made of fabric or poured acrylic glazes on mylar combined with graphite to create a cropped stained glass effect.

The window drawings reveal tiny drawn graphite forms that create patterns of grass, water and rice. Within each piece, a silhouette of a building hovers within the patterns, using the same dramatic two-point perspective and abstraction as Ed Ruscha’s Standard Stations, to portray these ordinary structures scattered throughout our landscape which house organizations holding significant influence and commoditization over these basic substances. Poured acrylic glazes create added depth and transparent color over the graphite drawings.