DreamofOcean, from Left Hanging series, 2018

Left Hanging is an ongoing series of text drawings and prints quoting unanswered messages I sent on internet dating sites. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The viewer knows nothing of the author/artist or the recipient. Legibility is compromised: all punctuation is removed, the words are warped and distorted, echoing the author’s initial efforts to shape the message for its intended recipient. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Initially intended for a private singular audience, these messages, now made large and corporeal, are transformed into peculiar proclamations, meticulous shrines to longing, a tenacious exercise in oversharing. That each carefully crafted message failed, perhaps unread even by its initial recipient, matters no longer. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black tyvek drawings, their hand cut letters left dangling, are hung off the wall and lit with a spot, casting stark shadows that are often more clearly legible than the object casting the shadow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thin and delicate, these drawings are fastened only at the top, allowing the works to be responsive to the slightest breeze. Individual letters flutter and shake, further activating the forms.