Natural History

As an Asian private individual, Kazutaka Hirota is working for the artworks referring to Western history.  Becasue he has no responsibility for any issue of Western history, he has the right to cosider the Western dailylife just as he likes.  The materials of this project are assembled from the secondhand stores such as Goodwill, or Salvation Army.  Having studied art in the US, thus, standing at the neutral point between Asian cultural sensibility and Western art, he manipulates the materials to create artworks just as the issue of form and color on composition.

Postcard Series

After publishing his first novel, The Crossing, in October 2016, Michael Doane wanted to find a unique way to get the word out. He had been collecting postcards for quite some time, so he dug them out of his desk drawer and begin typing quotes from his novel on them. They were sent off to friends, family, and people who just might be interested in a story like The Crossing and are still available if you simply ask.

ECHOES FROM CITY LAND ON TURTLE ISLAND. She said this day will come why not listen/ or / her heart exploded at the sound of soldiers footsteps performing colonialism / and why do the same thing over and over again and they declared america is not crazy

Echoes from city land... is a three channel immersive video installation and performance. Each video follows a dramatic arc of the past, present and future. Footage was found using the Maryland Historical Society, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The National Library of Congress, the Enoch Pratt Public Library, and internet footage. Three videos projected into the space each represent a different representation of the passing of time in Baltimore City.

GENERATIONS

Project 1628 presents GENERATIONS, an exhibition of furniture and sculpture constructed by the father-son artist pair David and Eli Hess. Generated through their collaborative process, this body of work is a product of their changing relationship and layered histories, which reveal their shared and disparate work practices and aesthetics. The work itself emerges from an amalgamation of weathered objects – pieces once discarded, later rescued, and then stored, only to be rebirthed and incorporated in a new form.

I'll just stop by Walmart and pick up a few things.

Dec 2016

Dimensions vary

Sculpture, Noise

“I'm sure Walmart has it.  We can just drive over and get it. We will be right back.  Just in and out no messin’ around. 

“Oh, they didn’t have it at Walmart? Well check on Amazon. They will have it.”

Largely made of cardboard and trash attached to robot floor cleaners and motorized toys.

This work is an expandable newer work that I was most recently working on.  There are plans to continue this work in making more roaming sculptures and to increase the number of cardboard houses.

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