A Structure for Things, 2016, cabinet, video monitor, paintings, sculptures, computers, found books, assemblage.
In A Structure for Things, I placed many of my works in a cabinet I also made, alongside found objects, plants, personal affects, and works by other artists. The cabinet is placed near a chair facing a wall with a nail in it, and a pedestal. A light is hung towards the empty display area. The chair's position is marked by blue tape, as when marking the location for a subject to stand for an observational painting.
While installed, visitors are welcome to take things off the shelf, to go through it, put things up if they wish to contemplate them, and to put things back in the own order, if they wish.
The work requires a viewer to go through it, to open it up, to put in the work of viewing, in order for it to be seen. The Cabinet is a physical structure containing disparate products of creative work and operates as a physical manifestation of the mind which thinks through various methods. Viewers may, or may not engage with the work. It's like this website.