My After the Crash project was created after myself and thousands of others were laid off from their jobs in October 2008. I explored the daily layoffs in the US and around the Globe as a reminder of how stability and structure are constantly in question and thus contradict their very own meaning.
In Untitled #4, an image of a woman in an office chair is projected on a wall or cubicle. As she rolls back and forth in a hypnotic trance she progressively becomes more and more frustrated from her entrapment within her emotional and physical work environment.
For my After the Crash project, which I began after myself and thousands of others were laid off from their jobs in October 2008, I explored the daily layoffs in the US and around the Globe as a reminder of how stability and structure are constantly in question and thus contradict their very own meaning. For one series of works, I invited fellow laid off New Yorkers into my studio to perform a pure gesture, as they “blacked out” a projected video image of the building in which they used to work. The final image was then photographed creating a still and monumental image.