Jenny Shenk
Shape Notes is an experiment in making a musical score visual/physical. It’s a piece of music I used to play on my violin mapped out in shape notes (a form of spatial musical notation used in my grandparent's generation) and measures.
Jenny Shenk
Cody Blain Jones
"The irony is that many of these moments look poorly done, and to be fair, some are. A good number of the renovations are completed with tape and paint. Regardless, each moment has snuffed elegance due to a constraint, but remains spectacular because of its thoughtfulness, consideration, and resourcefulness."
West Philly, South 48th Street (maybe), 2015
Philly on Gerard Ave, in the Winter, 2015
Baltimore, 2016
Baltimore Park Ave, near MICA, 2013
Chautauqua, 2014
Philly on 46th Street, 2015
Philly, 2014
L Train, Old City Stop, Philly, 2015
Philly, 47 Street, 2014
Baltimore, Bolton Hill, Cold Fall Day, 2015
Wissahickon State Park, 2015
West Philly, Chester Ave And 46th Street, 2015
Chautauqua, 2014
Baltimore, West Preston Street, 2015
Philly, South 5th Street, 2014
West Philly, South 49th Street, 2016
Pittsburgh, South Side, South 28th Street, 2014
Philly, 2015
Andrew Barger &
Michael Molloy
Porch 2016
Andrew and Michael built a mobile Porch. They install it and have outdoor gatherings. Small communities congregate to drink cheap beer and talk. Pictured is the Porch (attached to nothing) in a field in Athens, Ohio.
Matt Smith
The Thin Places
video (trt 00:01:45)
This video activated the fishing bobbers I made.Watching the video parallels the act of fishing with its palpable notions of potential hope and patient waiting.The term “thin places” comes from theologian Marcus Borg which refers to those situations where we find ourselves closer to some spiritual realm.
you feel that way real strong
felt banners, string, video projectors,
video (trt 00:06:15)
To experiment with a more immersive approach to installation work, I created three felt banners with Bible verses cut out of them which were used as screens to both block and permit video clips which were accompanied by audio clips that were both found and made.
i don’t know when but a day’s gonna come
Great-Grandfather’s Bobber photograph dimensions: varied In May of 2016 I reacquainted myself with a fishing bobber my great-grandfather made in the early to mid-20th century. My photograph is a simple documentation of the family heirloom, but also an acknowledgement the handicraft holds its own power without anything being altered or added.
Fishing Bobbers (various assortments) wood, metal, shellac dimensions: varied I created several dozen fishing bobbers in various sizes and shapes from a repurposed broom stick.This exploration offered me a way to reflect on my great-grandfather’s activity of making hand-crafted fishing bobbers.
The Thin Places (Detail)
Doth a Fountain felt, string, hot glue approx. 12”x9” Doth a Fountain is a felt banner that uses my great-grandfather’s handwriting to write out a Bible verse. The Bible verse holds dichotomous language which asks for purity within oneself instead of a more realistic amalgamation.
you feel that way real strong (third banner from installation you feel that way real strong) laser cut felt, hot glue, wood approx. 40”x 28” For the set of banners in my installation I photographed the three sides of my great-grandfather’s fishing bobber. I lifted the text and laser cut the words into the felt banners. I then projected both still and moving imagery through the banners.
you feel that way real strong
you feel that way real strong
you feel that way real strong
you feel that way real strong
you feel that way real strong
i don’t know when but a day’s gonna come paint, rocks, found wood, pottery wheel, light, extension cord, dimmer switch dimensions – varied For this installation, I wanted an apocalyptic sense of the space. The rocks were scrawled with Bible verses from Revelations about the second coming of Jesus. The light, moving on its own, gave an eerie sense of life to the performing objects.
i don’t know when but a day’s gonna come
God Speaks from the Television felt, hot glue approx. 24”x 36” I have been creating a series of felt storyboards like the ones I grew up with in Sunday school except these narratives tell incredible contemporary stories of faith. In this one, an opiate addict turns on his TV at 3am to find showing. He sees it as a communication from God and kneels to pray. He has been sober since the incident.
Sometimes It Takes a lot felt, hot glue approx. 24”x36” This felt storyboard gives my take on a story of an alcoholic friend of mine who ended up drunkenly crashing his car into a church. In his drunken daze, he looked up to see the cross and felt that God had given him another chance. He has been sober since the incident.
The Day the Boat Flipped Over felt, hot glue approx. 24”x36” When I was in my early teens, my dad, brother and I went fishing in our aluminum boat. After getting a line stuck in the tree overhead, one of us stood up to untangle and ended up flipping over the boat. While we were only in about four feet of water, it felt like an emergency. We all swam safely to shore, but ended up losing an antique rod and reel owned by my great-grandfather that day.
Filet-O-Fish felt, hot glue approx. 11”x27” I started fileting fish in my early teens. It was a unique experience and my first venture into some kind of subsistence activity that took life and in turn provided nourishment for my own body.
