size variable | watercolor, glitter on hand-cut paper, string, 5-channel video projection, gelled lighting | 2015 | Fiberlicious | Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery | Los Angeles
Candy Bowl Meltdown is a completely immersive installation, the result of a months-long studio practice where I produced numerous color-splashed large-scale cut-paper drawings. These drawings serve as a dense skeletal structure within a body of turbulent nature projections — psychedelic color shifts beset by a tinny soundscape of a child’s voice and symphonic Beethoven.
The viewer instantly becomes a participant upon entering the blacked-out room, their figure cast into triads of red, green, and blue shadows by gelled overhead lighting. The saturated environment creates a post-disaster atmosphere of suspended disbelief — both welcoming and unsettling. An emergence of a newly formed hybridized world, a crosshatching of the senses, an encapsulated art-gallery synesthesia.