FILTER DIARIES
Installation
2016
FILTER DIARIES, is constructed from the everyday materials: coffee, tea, and the filters that hold them.
La Mano Coffee Bar in Washington, D.C invited me to create an installation for their space. No restrictions were placed on the commission, but I decided to use the materials that allow this business to thrive and to use them within the framework of my current trajectory of work creating spaces that invite reflection.
The aromatic meditation space signifies the cross-cultural rituals, both public and private, surrounding coffee and tea as ceremony. The labyrinth constructed from ground coffee invites the viewer on an inward journey to the center and an outward journey into the world. The screen made with unused tea bags is a container for loose tea but also selected pages from the dictionary, provoking ideas about filtered language. Captivated by the transformational process in making, I repurposed my own coffee filters, a diary of my daily practice. Stitching them into a scroll, I tell an autobiographical story resonate with many coffee lovers.
Overall, this installation invites viewers to reflect on how the filter as metaphor and symbol plays out in life, evoking questions such as: What gets filtered? When to filter? How much to keep in and keep out?
2016
FILTER DIARIES, is constructed from the everyday materials: coffee, tea, and the filters that hold them.
La Mano Coffee Bar in Washington, D.C invited me to create an installation for their space. No restrictions were placed on the commission, but I decided to use the materials that allow this business to thrive and to use them within the framework of my current trajectory of work creating spaces that invite reflection.
The aromatic meditation space signifies the cross-cultural rituals, both public and private, surrounding coffee and tea as ceremony. The labyrinth constructed from ground coffee invites the viewer on an inward journey to the center and an outward journey into the world. The screen made with unused tea bags is a container for loose tea but also selected pages from the dictionary, provoking ideas about filtered language. Captivated by the transformational process in making, I repurposed my own coffee filters, a diary of my daily practice. Stitching them into a scroll, I tell an autobiographical story resonate with many coffee lovers.
Overall, this installation invites viewers to reflect on how the filter as metaphor and symbol plays out in life, evoking questions such as: What gets filtered? When to filter? How much to keep in and keep out?
