THE SUMMER: A READING
FOR LOS ANGELES
Through chance, play, a sense of mystery and
even a puzzle, I am fascinated by how games hold the power to innocently yet
deeply grip people, calm them, excite them, and possibly heal. By delineating
a sacred, poetic space for a ritual participation in art, THE SUMMER: A READING
FOR LOS ANGELES is a sculpture of healing for the entire City of Los Angeles
through the mysteriously ordered, ludic structure of a tarot card game.
THE SUMMER first exhibited in 2010 at the Morono
Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles as part of Grow,
a group exhibition themed around social change and "creatively solving
what ails our contemporary existence, starting with our own backyards."
THE SUMMER consisted of silk-screened three-dimensional tarot cards on blocks
of wood displayed on a customized table. Inspired by personal and psychic
experiences in homes and their surrounding geographies, each tarot image corresponds
to a real, physical address in Los Angeles.
Click below to see still documentation of THE SUMMER.
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