Score

Vinyl, wood, graphite, and found materials, 80’x20’x35’, 2011
Disjecta Portland, OR, USA

Score explores the making, breaking, and rearranging of rules, strategies, structures, and histories.

In this work, I amplify the working mechanism and occasional failure of systems by creating a modified reconstruction of the former function of Disjecta's site: a bowling alley. This staged approach creates a platform where rules are bent and strategies altered. Further, the alley serves as a setting in which the past is made present, architectural nuances of the space are highlighted, and our current economic state is ambivalently called to attention.

Components of the installation include an interspersion of locally sourced debris from bowling alleys, curbsides, abandoned lots, and foreclosed properties. This tableau of altered and repurposed materials serves as a reminder of both the economic growth and its collapse through the years.

Score enacts a perfect yet playful distortion of experience through an engagement with the physicality and location of the space, reanimating a familiar game and history.  This resultant work is heightened through the use of color and materials that complement and comment on the architecture of the gallery, the gentrification of the Kenton neighborhood, and the geographic landscape of the North West.