These are some images from my BFA installation at the Cleveland Institute of Art. It is a home setting, consisting of three life-scale rooms (bedroom, kitchen, and living room) made almost entirely out of found/collected garbage and other waste materials. Within the space are several stories that align thematically. The "Steps" video plays in three parts in the three windows of the home. Other videos and a film play in drawers and behind doors in the home. All of the stories end with some sort of metamorphosis taking place, the characters' identities being irrevocably altered. The story of the home itself is that of a successful family man who, after undergoing a metamorphosis, is abandoned by his wife and children and left to contemplate his existence. He rants and speaks directly to god, questioning what and why this has happened to him. This narration plays over speakers in the living room where the father stands in his deformed state. The concepts involved in the installation surround the idea of consumption, and how our society's need to consume and be consumed by ego, power, money, ideology, food, etc... leads to simplified modes of thinking. Our preconceptions take control and we lose sight of how our every step affects our surrounding environment. The stories I am creating take these concepts and form them into horror stories, where the end result of the characters' actions is their world caving in on them through a very literal metamorphosis.
