Parlor Projection
Parlor Projection, 1997
cardboard, gesso, video projection
This piece is comprised of child sized replicas of dollhouse furniture constructed from gessoed cardboard and used as a screen for the projected videotaped pattern from the original miniatures.
Toys and dollhouse miniatures become imbued with a girlish nostalgia which is at once melancholic and seductive. The installation "Parlor Pieces" uses pattern as both a visual signifier and a metaphoric probability resulting in a quirky mixture of beauty as sentiment and material process as a reminder of the ever present rough edges. Included in this installation are "Parlor Grouping I" and "Parlor Projection" which are replicas of one another and reflect an 'Alice in Wonderland' sensibility where scale and light are inconsistent and varied. Other pieces such as "Parlor Painting" and "Pattern Painting" are reminiscent of wallpaper but again refer back to a miniature world. (Jennings and Miller)