The Price (Giving In Gets You Nowhere)
This project was done for the Public Art Fund in New York City and is based on the play The Price by Arthur Miller. This piece was set in an abandoned building in Brooklyn. I used the empty building as the backdrop for the family drama of the play. Here, the building was like a giant cuckoo clock in which life-sized marionettes emerged every hour on the hour from the 3rd-floor windows and moved through pre-programmed sequences.
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On a fundamental level, this piece played against the expectation and understanding that many people living in cities habitually look at the sidewalk, rather than up. I liked both the overtly complicated nature of this piece as well as its willingness to be overlooked. On another level, the pre-programmed movements of the marionettes are illustrative of conditioned dynamics within many families.
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