The nature of laundromats as spaces where private and public overlap, trust and self-policing are always at play, with a captive audience that has nothing but time to kill made them fraught sites of intervention and inspiration. The co-existence of anonymity and community engages these structures.
Photo series of walkable laundromats taken in the evening.
A two-part installation that spanned from J&W Laundromat and down the street to Queen's Nails Annex Gallery as part of ">Lab" involving a community postboard and a corresponding video. respectively. Community postboards and video-sharing websites both offer non-hierarchically organized information posted by individuals for public access. The video collages appropriated YouTube videos depicting methods for cheating coin-operated machines. The poster is instructions for how to fold 'hard to fold' wash items.
Stacked and stapled to a bulletin board, the cheaply printed photo-strips depict the 7 levels of intimacy, with a hand-written, diaristic text on the back of each strip. Installed at Baker St. Coin Laundry, 550 Baker St., San Francisco, CA. Installed March 2, 2009, 6:45PM. Print you own here.
Set of four watercolor paintings depicting the process of folding a shirt, on cotton paper.
