video installation with dining table setting, with hole cut out of table for projection onto dinner plate, upholstered chairs, wall of prints with grommets
9′ x 5′
2 minute clip (below)
toys taxi attack: my bug day is an immersive installation centered on a stop-motion animation projected through the center of a dinner plate. The animation follows a cast of toys, insects, and miniature worlds that unfold through play, movement, and imagined adventures. Rather than serving as simple fantasy, the projected world becomes an imagined refuge within the familiar ritual of the family meal. The gallery was arranged as a domestic dining room, complete with a fully set table surrounding the projection. Quiet tensions can exist beneath ordinary family rituals and, as a child, dinner often felt performative, a place where emotions were carefully managed and harmony was expected. The animation became a visualization of the inner world I imagined while sitting at the table, where play, curiosity, and freedom existed alongside the expectations of family life.
Surrounding the installation, prints from the sew olden times series extended these reflections on childhood, domesticity, and memory.
