Celestial Umbilical Cord

So i've been heavy on intermedia this semester, with more time to explore my identity as an artist, and with concepts that fascinate me. This was my first collaborative installation, with Miriam and Mandy and ocurred in early November. By the end of the night, the whole class was suckling on the flavored water gloves, very fun and vulnerable...

To me, the dank but warm basement was an eerie safe space to be, almost womblike. This center column, didn’t replicate our ideas exactly with the video projection, but the moving blue light contrasted the hot yellow floodlight nicely. My feelings for the installation are of natural energy and healing. The gloves filled with flavored water encourage suckling, a return to an infant state, a return to mother nature, perhaps. There is an intense energy vibrating around the column and while it may not be obvious what it is and why you look at it, I think the room depends on it being there as a nurturing energy.