Even to the senses of man and fish
Six channel video installation. A musing on the relationship between man and nature. For the exhibit “Mediated Nature” at Oberlin College
Waterfall: A love story
Countless years ago, the dark, ruthless waterfall hunter and broken superhero Black Diamond fell in love with one of his lovely prey, the tender-hearted waterfall known as Jonya Foss. The exact details of their unusual affair is unknown but we are fortunate to have these mystical fragments Black Diamond left behind – including cryptic drawings,...
Envirotouchers in Chicago
CHICAGO – Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibition, Dig In, Float Up. This exhibition features wearable sculpture, photography and video created during Connerly and Featherstone’s ongoing investigation into how to create a more meaningful connection with the world around us. Included in the show are examples Envirotouchers, a...
human/sand collaboration
Sandmounds are a collaboration between human and sand. The sculptures create a place for reflection and vacation fantasy.
Rootpack
Rootpack enables its wearer to grow into and transmit and/or absorb molecules from his or her environment. The extra connection and nutrition boosts the wearer’s functionality and sensitivity to the selected surroundings.
Becoming-Cloud Suit
Becoming-Cloud Suit is an inflatable sculpture that enables an individual to experience the levitation, contemplation, and other qualities of cloud-ness. Download the Becoming-Cloud Instructions
Collection Belt
Collection Belt gathers your relationship with the environment and holds it in solid form so that others may wear, experience and absorb it. Download the instructions for the Collection Belt
Snowball Carrier
Snowball Carrier is a protective device that enables an individual to carry part of the environment with them throughout the day. It allows the individual and snowball to maintain a temporary intimate relationship despite the obvious difficulties they may present to each other.
Building Snuggle
Building Snuggle The building snuggle enables the wearer to forge a closer connection with his/her everyday environment by actually attaching himself to an element of the environment’s structure. In doing so, it forms an intimate space in which both individual and environment can lay together and, through snuggling, gain insight into each other’s experiences, true...
Parking Line Drawing
Parking Line Drawing requires its participants to interact with an often-overlooked part of their everyday environment. Individuals align their body with a parking lot line and absorb both the trials and the joys of a line that is bound to a singular place and two-dimensional plane. After this bonding, individuals armed with new insight into...
Forest Research
Photography becomes a visual investigation into these landscapes that saturate me. What does this landscape – the one that is trying to press itself out of me – look like? A photograph of a waterfall and an Urban Parlour Game instigating a “growl-suck” are for me interrelated. The photo initiates an inquiry, it is a...
Transitory Contact
2001 – performance/web documentation transitorycontact In 2000 I was on a bus in Pittsburgh. I wasn’t really paying attention to my surroundings; probably I was focused on getting home or was reliving some part of my day. The bus went around a corner. I should have kept myself upright but instead – in a moment...