My DEIR, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place

solar panels, industrial fan, work lights, batteries, electronics, and paper sculpture
approximately 156” x 108” x 120”
2015

My DEIR was commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for the Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market, an exhibition structured around a rotating, in-gallery residency.

The installation is a meditation on the policies and proposals reshaping the neighborhood and community organizing by residents using tools like cultural district planning and environmental impact studies to leverage a voice in the political process. The work distills and examines two-base elements that have come into play in some of those environmental impact reports–sunlight and wind–manifested here in a solar panel rig and industrial fan. In the piece, the fan attempts to inflate the building model, inverting the relationship a building like this might typically have to its surrounding neighborhood: instead of generating those effects, it is now supported (or pulled apart) by those elements.