Box, first in a series of art installation. Friday May 3, 2013.

Box is first in a series of installation art shown in Studio 14 at 200 Main Street, Burlington, VT.  Each month, there will be a new installation with the intention to bring more awareness and experience of installation art  to the public, specifically the Burlington area. You enter the studio into a box the size of the room and 9ft tall.  There is a smaller open box in the center of the room and 2 small chairs in one corner. Box began with the idea of playing on the cliche of 'thinking out of the box' and that one can think they are 'outside of the box', but ultimately we are always inside of another 'box', hence never really 'outside of the box'.  Entering the studio, one can see that they are outside of one box, yet still inside of another. The work can be considered minimalist, monochromatic and essentialist. In the process of making the installation and after, with others comments, many additional themes and responses arose including; corporate oppression, reincarnation, safety, antidote to overstimulation of society, the impulse to 'contain' or 'compartmentalize' art especially if it challenges us, impermanence, temporality of the work, a visceral physical experience of being inside and a part of the artwork, an examination of the sensory experience of boxes/cardboard, meditative, look inside.