INVENTORY INCIDENTS

An incident is defined as a distinct occurrence, something contingent upon or related to something larger.

In 1999, before the proliferation of smart phones and social media, the artist tracked, invented and weeded through daily incidents in her life. On a fifty-four drawer metal parts cabinet, each drawer is labeled with a consecutive date: month and day.  Inside each drawer is one to eight 3x5″ index cards with brief phrases typed across the top, slid into the metal slots, neatly spaced, each card lists a small event, an incident. Any given drawer, or combination of drawers opened, offers a disrupted sense of familiarity, experiences we’ve all have in some form, both remembered and forgotten.  The phrases reveal themselves to form a character, a temperament, a psyche. They reveal a quotidian life, yet one that is tailored to each individual viewer based on how they choose to interact with the drawers: read them in order, or randomly open a single one.

Not unlike the repetitive years we live through, the battered nature of the chest references a body and brain in use, the unreliable narrator, the mental & emotional singularity we each carry, similar yet different. Our memories at time sparkling, at others a deep burden. The rope handle (not pictured) attaches to the base and acts as a rudimentary yet functional handle to pull the weight of ones experiences, as we move through space.