Call Me When You See This

15 hand-dyed/bleached sheets of fabric, 9 channel video, poplar beams, magnets, resin, twine, sound

Call Me When You See This is an architectural space constructed from hand-dyed fabrics. Hand-dyed and bleached sheets of fabric are hung from thin poplar beams embedded with magnets at varying heights, creating intimate spaces to meditate in. This piece acts as an accompanying expansion of the short film Mom’s Clothes; the animated, nonfiction short film utilizes a replacement animation technique to indulge in an exhaustive, analytical study of the structured chaos of patterned and dyed fabric.

Along the walls of the gallery are CRT monitors and a large projection, all of which contain animation derived from photographing the various hanging fabrics. While Mom’s Clothes focuses on the precarious balance of a public and private queer identity through narration and fabric replacement animation, Call Me When You See This brings physical materiality to the forefront and presents pockets of privacy to reside in. Viewers are invited to ruminate the projected results of the meditative animation technique used to explore each fabric while enclosed in intimate proximity to each of the hung materials.

Call Me When You See This is scalable depending on the gallery space and track lighting/grid system.

CRT Animation

Each fabric animation loop ranges from 6 - 20 seconds. These GIFs have been excerpted.

Installation Documentation

Originally installed in C113 Gallery at California Institute of the Arts.

an explorer, a tracer of lost tribes, a seeker of clues to feelings

Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery at Princeton Day School

Anne Reid ’72 Gallery at Princeton Day School presents an explorer, a tracer of lost tribes, a seeker of clues to feelings, an exhibition of stop-motion animation by:

Carrie Hawks, Gabrielle Tesfaye and Jordan Wong. Winter Exhibition 2023.

Select fabric pieces and a loop of my short animated film “Mom’s Clothes” were displayed as part of a group show.

Opening Reception

Dissolving Sights II + Peephole Cinema Opening

AUTOMATA

Los Angeles, CA

2019

An Exhibition of Projection Art

Featuring the work of:

RAMONA APTHORP
JOSH CLOUD
DANIEL CORREL
MELISSA FERRARI
JANIE GEISER
MIRANDA KAHN
XIYU LIN
MIWA MATREYEK
MOIRA MACDONALD
GINA MARIE NAPOLITAN
LAURIE O’BRIEN 
BENNI QUINTERO
MAT RAPPAPORT 
SUSAN SIMPSON 
MARIA F. VIDELA URRA
JORDAN WONG

Projection overlays objects merging two bodies of information into a hybrid form. Creating an “image skin” over the built environment transforms, informs and confuses a static understanding of place. Dissolving Sights brings together the work of artists who use projection as a significant part of their practice, engaging themes of place, resistance and dreams.

The exhibition, organized by Janie Geiser, Susan Simpson, Melissa Ferrari, and Laurie O’Brien is hosted by Automata.