Island Wilderness was the outcropping of a short residency on Harbor Island as curator. Yale Wolf generously allowed me to put together a micro-exhibit with several other artists I invited to participate in collaboration with me. Pivoting off of each artist’s personal relationship to wilderness, we proceeded in producing a series of collaborative installations with each other to create a wilderness theme park embedded with neon.
To the left is one of the installations at the show, which served as its advertisement as well. It was designed by Wun Ting Chan, and engineered and built by me.
In addition to Chan, several other artists contributed as collaborators; notably, Ayda Rojhantalab displayed her taxidermy sculptures on top of custom polygonal plinths recessed with neon cavities, Jenny Riffle created an entire wall of continuous life-size forests in photography and wheat pasted it to the wall, Baso Fibonacci with Yale and I produced an aluminum and acrylic neon racoon sculpture, and Yale Wolf brought forth his massive neon fragment collection to intersperse through out the show. Chan and I also built fabulous low-poly paper antlers for Butylene O’kipple to perform modern dance mixed with drag as a faun creature. The antlers were laser-cut paper, spray paint, and aluminum for the hidden construction.
