The Peanut Gallery is an installation based on donations of packing peanuts and assistance from my community. The exhibition is created with the help of others. It is an experimentation in creating a space of play in a systematic institution that sometimes takes itself too seriously. The visitor becomes the object, and the interactions that happen are a matter of chance. As Michael Fried wrote in 1967, in his seminal essay, Art and Objecthood, “Presentness is grace.”

The work was born from questioning why I was making stuff and adding to more stuff. The donated packing peanuts were upcycled again, into residential insulation, following the exhibition run.

[2016 - Two separate exhibitions: Berlin, Germany and Raleigh, NC, USA]