UNBURDENING
A LOAD
Unburdening a Load, 2008, is an exercise in site-specific installation, assemblage, and the redistribution of material means. I acquired one ton of sand left over from a Chris Burden installation at the Orange County Museum of Art, titled A Tale of Two Cities. I used the sand in a sound installation along with other scavenged and gifted components. I constructed a “Sandblaster”, a cradle similar to an hour glass, from which the sand poured onto an electric keyboard. The lumber for the Sandblaster was salvaged from UCIrvine’s set design dumpster, waste from their production of Judas Iscariot; the paint for the Sandblaster was donated by the University Art Gallery, left over from past exhibitions; and the keyboard was a gift from my father, which I had yet to play and carried with me for several years. I installed the Sandblaster in the Studio Art courtyard at UCIrvine over the course of three days in March 2008. At 5pm on each of these days, I pulled the plug in the cradle and released the sand. The weight of the sand began to play a chord which progressed in volume and complexity as the pile grew. At the end of the week, the Sandblaster was dismantled and the sand was delivered to the Child Development Center on Jamboree Road, in Irvine, CA, a school for children with autism, and other learning disabilities, for use in their sandbox.
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