Installations

The Swing is a proposed interactive site specific installation requiring a sofa. It is to be located in an outdoor space that includes a large oak tree with a strong horizontal branch. Suspended from this branch is a sofa with a French or Rococo design. It is lifted two to three feet off the ground. The chains which support the sofa are intertwined with ribbon. And swings gently with a push or with the breeze (the sofa is light) .

The swing is playful. It is a comfy seat swinging from the trees. It mirrors the mindset of a suicidal individual thinking of the comfort (release) death by hanging might bring. It is my hope that it voids that desire with a notion of a rest (comfort) in a welcoming piece of furniture.

The attractiveness of the couch belies the attractiveness of this death option to suicidal persons. And yet, this swing hanging in a tree is not a tool of self destruction. It is tool for self care. It brings the suicidal individual out into the sun and posits them in a safe comfortable space.

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I place my imaginary bunnies on my alternate plane and move them around. I achieve maximum sanctuary for fragile bunny souls.

I move furniture until the optimum setting for family is achieved. I win the battle over family and personal dysfunction.

In On Longing (!984) author Susan Stewart writes:“The toy world presents a projection of the world in everyday life; this real world is miniaturized or giganticized in such a way as to test the relation between materiality and meaning.”