Uncharted
Heather Brubaker and Marie-Claire Miesels recently curated me into a group show called “Uncharted: Imaginary Landscapes” at the Hayes Valley Market in SF. I found out about the show the day after my daughter Djuna was born, and convinced myself that I could put together a video, site specific sound installation, and some paintings by the time Djuna was a couple of months old. After having focussed so heavily on painting this last year, I really wanted to spend some time experimenting and doing a multi-disciplinary project. I had also been working on some code to run various synthesis techniques on tiny AVR chips, and wanted to try incorporating that into one of my felt and thread installations. 
Originally, I was going to make stuffed island forms with embedded circuitry and have them floating on the thread meshwork. However, after playing around with that I determined that it looked to plushy and instead developed the felt island structures by handstitching together bits of felt to resemble forms from some of my paintings. An attiny26 chip provided 7 channels of randomly dispersed chatters and noises that were played through tiny cellphone speakers embedded in each of the islands.
I also installed a 3-minute video loop that I recently finished, and a pair of acrylic-on-paper works.