20th Century Comfort Room
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window view
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door view
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ceiling view
http://vimeo.com/84357975
My first super-8 film ever, documenting the found afghans used in the installation. Edited in camera, I was clueless and that's why the film came out so interesting!
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Installed at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 1998. 14' x 12' x 10', found afghans, crochet, yarn, chair, clock.
When I arrived at the Headlands for my first ever artist residency in 1998 I was expecting a bigger space. My intention was to make large quilts out of found materials. Similar to these Modern Scrap Quilts. When I was assigned this small room as my studio for the first half of my three month residency I decided to "quilt" the room instead.
It's an interior space that speaks about the confinement of imagination. It activates and focuses attention in a way that can be maddeningly insane, nostalgically cozy, or both simultaneously.
The 20th Century Comfort Room was featured on the cover of KnitKnit, Issue 5, a zine by Sabrina Gschwandtner, which appeared in a book coauthored by Faith Levine in 2008, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design. Which I discovered while visiting the exhibition Alien She (see post) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.