The Measure of It
installation in Frost Plaza, Maryland Institute College of Art
paving stones, one minute sand timers, 2019.
paving stones, one minute sand timers, 2019.
Counting, tallying and weighing….stops along the road of acknowledging an obsession or addiction. This installation narrates one of those moments of awareness - a smeared and overwritten count of what’s been consumed, boxes stacked and crumpling under their own weight, and a sagging ceiling created by the weight of what’s been poured. The enclosure conveys how isolation contributes to the perpetuation of an addiction - oneself the only standard of measurement. Without the objectivity of others there’s no true measure of the problem.