ARG /rīziNG/ I, 2015 

9 hot pink 36" mylar letter balloons

3 pink rose mylar balloons

hot pink ribbon

12 ikea mirrors

pink lights

pink silk

hot pink rose vines & rose petals

4 wood framed astroturf square 

hand woven roses area rug

dimensions variable

 

This site specific installation within a space called the Red Cube has been paintied blue to reiterate it's corporate identity and branding as many public universities convert to "it's all about the ($$$) numbers"  vs. quality education mode. The containing of my monagram and beautiful elemments of repetitious branding associated with my own identity as an artist within this commercialed container represents the oppression I felt at this time within these constraints while one set tries to escape yet is still tied to the establishment.