DIY Installation Instruction Books
hand-bound books (2012)
These books give anyone who wants them step-by-step instructions (as well as a supply list and necessary measurements) for installing specific architectural installations in a space of their choosing.
None of my painted installations can be moved from one space to another. They can only be loosely duplicated to live again in another space, making their lives incredibly temporary and precious. When their preciousness is left unbalanced by accessibility, it can push these works into austerity. To balance this, I use these installation instructions to provide free access to the process that roots the fully realized works. With distributed sets of instructions, the individual incarnations of these guides indeed stay singular, precious objects but the ideas that birth them do not.
Each set of instructions is titled and written with deliberately possessive language to emphasize the free access to ownership the work offers. Each edition of these volumes is hand pressed, and the covers are stamped one-by-one in my studio to keep these books truly self-published.
None of my painted installations can be moved from one space to another. They can only be loosely duplicated to live again in another space, making their lives incredibly temporary and precious. When their preciousness is left unbalanced by accessibility, it can push these works into austerity. To balance this, I use these installation instructions to provide free access to the process that roots the fully realized works. With distributed sets of instructions, the individual incarnations of these guides indeed stay singular, precious objects but the ideas that birth them do not.
Each set of instructions is titled and written with deliberately possessive language to emphasize the free access to ownership the work offers. Each edition of these volumes is hand pressed, and the covers are stamped one-by-one in my studio to keep these books truly self-published.