Wayfinding
Lambert International Airport, Terminal 2, St. Louis, MO
March 2019 — 2020
Wayfinding signage directs someone to a destination; it keeps one moving towards something specific. This solo exhibition, Wayfinding, created for Terminal 2 through the Lambert Art & Culture program, uses fragmented language for indirect communication and navigation. It includes seven wall pieces, one free-standing tower, and one large site-specific piece created specifically for the airport context.
You Call It A Cloud: Ascent extends the functional language found on commercial signage into the poetic. The word and media collage incorporates word fragments taken from the Cloud Series poems by St. Louis poet Stephanie Schlaifer. The metallic vinyl shimmers ethereally as it reflects the active environment around it, with language that moves across the stark, cloud-like form..
You Call It A Cloud: Ascent extends the functional language found on commercial signage into the poetic. The word and media collage incorporates word fragments taken from the Cloud Series poems by St. Louis poet Stephanie Schlaifer. The metallic vinyl shimmers ethereally as it reflects the active environment around it, with language that moves across the stark, cloud-like form..
"You Call It A Cloud: Ascent." wooden signboard, metallic vinyl 22 x 4.5' 2019
Click here for a short video of the “Wayfinding" exhibition.
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Wayfinding II
Spiva Gallery, Southwestern Missouri University, Joplin, MO 2022
In this solo exhibition, Wayfinding II, I play with the notion of navigation and indirect communication by disrupting the efficiencies of sign-based language.
In the latest project, from The Series of Wayward Signs, I use fragments of conversations I overheard while navigating wayward (directional signs) in a busy airport. The signs are now stacked uselessly against the wall, in shades of grey that take on new meaning in our post- pandemic, politicized environment. Similarly, the signpost’s directional arrows point to contradictions in how we navigate our seemingly dichotomous set of choices.
In the latest project, from The Series of Wayward Signs, I use fragments of conversations I overheard while navigating wayward (directional signs) in a busy airport. The signs are now stacked uselessly against the wall, in shades of grey that take on new meaning in our post- pandemic, politicized environment. Similarly, the signpost’s directional arrows point to contradictions in how we navigate our seemingly dichotomous set of choices.
exhibition view, front: Signpost 2021 (from the "Series of Wayward Signs") 76” x 46” x 46” signboard, vinyl 2021, back: Not Yet (from the "Series of Wayward Signs"), 65 x 120 x 7" signboard, vinyl 2022.
