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Once a Day, 2007, work in progress.
Once a Day reveals stories of violence in the Web landscape. Through a conceptual mapping process, daily bits of information come together in unusual symbolic encounters. These visual and verbal elements are gathered through daily, automated Google searches associated with stylized violence. As the Google Alerts search for content connected to these concepts, the results are sent to my email inbox, accumulating there until I visit those links. Images, text and video are then appropriated and recontextualized to form a narrative for that day. Each element makes reference to one of my concept searches.

I am interested in seeing how, over time, a complex story emerges from the aggregate of all this information. I am interested in exploring how the viewer might interact with changes in the scale and in the behavior of these familiar images, and how they might contribute to a narrative that is always in flux. Here the building and making of the story is meaningful, as well as the interactivity that I create. I wonder how input from the viewer at the beginning of their interaction with the work might determine an experience of the story that is generated individually for them. This project is in progress and currently employs XHTML, CSS and Javascript. I am in the process of expanding it's potential for input from users and hope to realize it as an interactive installation. Visit the Web site.

Media X exhibition at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA. Once a Day, 2008 (archival ink jet prints)

Once a Day, 2008 and on-going (archival ink jet prints and some details)
With a grant from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, I was able to resize screen shots from the Web site and create large format prints on an Epson 9800. The longer images (panoramas) are 20 x 35.5 inches. Each image is created in an edition of three. For more info, please contact me.

Once a Day (May 3 (part 2), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 3 (part 2), 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (May 5 (part 1), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 5 (part 1), 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (May 5 (part 1), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 5 (part 1), 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (February 11, 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 25 x 20 inches

Once a Day (February 11, 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (May 3 (part 3), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 26 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 5 (part 2), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 5 (part 2), 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (May 2, 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 2, 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (March 27 (part 1), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (March 27 (part 1), 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (July 27, 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (July 27, 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (March 27 (part 2), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (March 27 (part 2), 2007), 2008, detail

Once a Day (May 3 (part 1), 2007), 2008, archival ink jet print, 35.5 x 20 inches

Once a Day (May 3 (part 1), 2007), 2008, detail