Kitchen

 

Living Room

Overview

2000

Oberlin, Ohio

Action: Two cameras were set on stationary tripods in my home for a period of several months. They are turned on and off intermittently but often forgotten about recording, without discretion, the mundane moments of the everyday. In the mania that is common to family life. House Works: A Chronicle of the Small (the installation associated with this video) seeks to magnify through its accretion, the mundane and common, and in doing so illuminate its beauty. The unpaid labor of the home opens a space for creativity much as the unpaid labor of the artist does