Exhibition Opening "Primitivism," Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, 1997

The Salvation Army Thrift Store in Charlottesville sold pillows for fifty cents. The bin was large and looked like a mountainous population of forgotten dreams and lazy Sunday lounging. Used clothing had lives and legacies as did these couch potatoes. The bin was emptied into the van and taken to the art department, pillow cases knifed and discarded, replaced with bedsheets sewn into bed sized pillow cases, monumental sacks of everyman's hangovers and dreams. They were tied with rope into bulbous sections and painted with latex house paint. Some remained stuffed, others emptied of their stuffing and hung like expressionist tie dyed tapestries. Monumental Dream Catchers.