Vernissages this week! Inventory of Memory and taBURNak! 5

With all that was going on I forgot to mention that I was in another show last week!

The piece that was exhibited was Love Me Harder-

Title: Love Me Harder 

Medium: Wood, glass, biological matter

Dimensions: 41" x 36"

Year: 2013

Love Me Harder is a piece that questions how we define and remember the ambiguous concept of love. "Love" is a historical and social concept that is made up of a variety of definitions and social constructs. It is defined in poetry and literature as impassioned feelings, defined by science as chemical reactions in the brain, talked about by spiritualists as touching the divine, and defined by mainstream culture as a sexual act. Love is one of the most common topics of our current culture, and yet no definition or way of communicating it can ever really translate the experience of individuals. 

Love Me Harder is made up of the continuing framed cataloguing of the remainders and memory of the artist's sexual activity with a lover over a period of months. By pairing it down to the barest minimum; the remnants of the sexual act, this piece asks us if we can ever truly define, communicate or capture exactly what love really is, or if the attempt to define it takes away from our ability to experience it fully.

 Photos by Hearyung Kim

As well this weekend I had The Patron Saint of Adulterers in taBURNak! 5, which went off with a complete and total smashing success!

All I got was terrible phone photos, hopefully someone else got some that were better.

 I ended up dismantling the Dome, sewed the tapestries together and added it into the shrine.

All in all, what a CRAZY week! Between the conference in New York (which I still have to finish blogging), Inventory of Memory and artist co-ordinating and event organizing for taBURNak! 5, I can't believe I'm still standing! In general though, I just feel pretty pumped by these incredible experiences. So amazing!