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1. home is where the hair is (untitled #7), 2004, silver gelatin print and artist’s hair, 8” x 10”
2. home is where the hair is (untitled #7), back of photograph, 2004, silver gelatin print and artist’s hair, 8” x 10”
3. home is where the hair is (untitled #5), 2004, silver gelatin print and artist’s hair, 8” x 10”
4. home is where the hair is (untitled #8), 2004, silver gelatin print and artist’s hair, 10” x 8”
5. home is where the hair is (untitled #3), 2004, silver gelatin print and artist’s hair, 8” x 10”
6. room, 2004, artist’s hair, 8’ x 12’
7. room, detail, 2004, artist’s hair
8. roots, 2004, plant roots and artist’s hair, 2’ x 6’
9. roots, detail, 2004, plant roots and artist’s hair
10. ladders, 2003, artist’s hair, size variable
11. ladders, detail, 2003, artist’s hair
12. symptoms of a neurotic state, front cover, 2002, mixed media and artist’s hair, 4” x 6”
13. symptoms of a neurotic state, interior pages, 2002, mixed media and artist’s hair
14. hair (#1), 2003, color Polaroid, 4-1/2” x 5”
15. hair (#8), 2003, color Polaroid, 4-1/2” x 5”
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Artist Statement
I gather the tips of my hair in my hand, arrange them so they nearly form a straight edge, and begin to stroke the strands with my index finger. I pull them up to my nose and inhale. The tips softly tickle my fingers, nose and lips, and then my cheeks, eyelids, and ears as I drag them along the rest of my face. In performing this simultaneously conscious and unconscious ritual over and over again, I provide myself with comfort, quiet, warmth, the memory of my mother’s body, and a sense of safety. In short, I make myself at Home.
With this ‘hair ritual’ as a catalyst for artistic investigation, I examine the subconscious process of trying to re-create a lost sense of Home through the body. Before I learned the societal attributes that came to define Home, such as family, ‘hometown,’ and house, my body provided me with a sense of place; it was my original Home. Therefore, when the cultural signifiers of Home are lost in my life, I naturally revert back to my body to provide me with a sense of Home in their absence. My work is a continual exploration of this process, its merits, and its failures.
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| Education
2004
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC
BFA, Studio Art with a Concentration in Photography
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Professional Experience
Photography Instructor,
Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA
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| Selected Exhibitions
2006
Selected Works, Doubleshots Café, Philadelphia, PA
2005
International Art Warehouse, Art Warehouse, Beijing, China
2004
‘home is where the hair is’ and other works, Frank Porter Graham Student Union Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
LOOM 3 Labeler, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
home, body, John and June Allcot Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2002
LOOM 2, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
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