Commissioned by the directors of the 8th Yokohama Triennial, Spider (2024) is a site specific, multi-media installation seen within the context of Wild Grass: Our Lives, on view in the Yokohama Museum of Art and elsewhere in the city in Spring 2024.

Specifying that my gallery wall remain incomplete, with the inner structure visible to the viewer, I displayed small sculptures made of items from daily life and from my US familyʼs history with military service in the US Vietnam War. In these objects there is an effort to consider what is left behind, like my sonʼs outgrown shoes, and bits of trash no longer fit for their original purpose, such as punctured balloons. Visceral and intellectual, these small- scale sculptures contain news clippings, words, colors and surfaces both universal and unique to my personal history; I call them ʻthought objectsʼ and they process visual information, social experiences and critical perspectives. On the freestanding 'gallery wall' photographs and materials were collaged into an expansive mural. Hand-printed in the darkroom, some photographs are from previous exhibitions whilst others have been printed in Darkroom International, Yokohama. Test strips, solarizations, newspaper and handwritten notes combine to display a network of personal, political and cultural realities and sights. Although each item is a fragment of the my personal life, by engaging these objects collectively within the exhibition space, the work brings into relief the cultural and political backgrounds and social fissures that lie beneath the surface of oneʼs seemingly isolated, everyday life.