A DROUGHT OF HOPE. A FLOOD OF DEATH. Viaduct Gallery, October 2015.
βThe UpsideUp, a collaborative origami collective from Des Moines, Iowa, has defined the fold in two ways, creating pristine white boats representative of those used in refugee situations along with the crumpled up pages of the New York Times, establishing the fleeting nature of what is deemed newsworthy. Eight hundred pages of crumpled newsprint meant to represent the 800 Syrian refugees lives lost.β
The answer comes when we consider what pressure is. Viaduct Gallery, March 2017. Read more about the installation here.
Des Moines City Sounds 2016 Artist