when I was fresh to los angeles, I worked with twentynine palms-based artist & performer, MPA. she was preparing her piece for an upcoming exhibition at the hammer museum and was seeking help with digital design & fabrication (the concept: a 20-foot pair of fiberglass sunglasses).
my role was Digitally modeling, CNC-milling, & engineering construction of the artist’s vision. The final piece was displayed at the hammer’s biennial exhibition, made in L.A. 2018.
from the hammer museum:
[MPA’s] project for Made in L.A. 2018 takes up the dynamics of scale and the possibility of creating an experience that fractures physical and psychic boundaries. [Her] installation was inspired by an item that is emblematic with Southern California: sunglasses. An enormous pair is split in two, with one half positioned inside the galleries and the other half outside on one of the large stucco terrace walls. A bright red line connects the two halves and meanders elsewhere in the museum. As its title—Faultline—indicates, the piece responds to the proximity of Los Angeles to the San Andreas and other faults, which portend massive earthquakes in the future. A metaphor for the current state of political affairs, Faultline points to the fractured positions and intractable boundaries so prevalent today...
all images courtesy of the hammer museum