INTO THE WHITE
Into The White was a collaborative exhibition in which Mary Toscano and I created separate series' of stark, vaguely narrative drawings on paper--hers inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the act of visual storytelling in general, and mine by the evolution and disappearance/reappearance of the modern horse in North America, and the social implications therein. The loose narratives of each evolved toward and converged on the back wall in an ambiguous narrative whiteout. This collaborative installation was a collision of our paper cut-outs—her birds and my horses—and 3-dimensional versions I created of the flat, marble horse heads from my drawings. We also collaborated on the storefront window installation-- a tactile, heavy piece involving a significant amount of 10 ft+ paper shreds that we shredded bits at a time (and filmed). In addition to the narrative element, we wanted to explore the effect of sparsity, an extremely limited palette, white-on-white, paper as a medium, and plays between observed dimension and weight.