Mismatched Drapes:

The Mismatched Drapes Project is a series of site specific object based interventions–Six chapters are documented below: Mismatched Drapes: Adobe Church and Mismatched Drapes: Motel, were the original actions sited in Santa Rosa New Mexico, Three iterations of Mismatched Drapes: Trading Post, were enacted in Arizona, and Mismatched Drapes Cali Rose was executed in collaboration with artist Ben Stout again in the vicinity of Santa Rosa. The project has been supported by residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

* Three Mismatched Drapes: Condos Now Available have been executed in Columbus Ohio, these chapters are undocumented

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For the many years I have through the Mismatched Drapes Project been exploring issues of privilege, power and trade, through instigating unilateral swaps on derelict sites. In these actions I assert my inclusion in an economy of privilege, and from this seat of favor enter and take from a site (enter and take is the root meaning of entrepreneur). I remove an object (steal) based upon my own desires, later replacing it with a work I create for the site. In this work I engage as a persona of dominant culture, uncovering the fallacy of fair trade when there is no equality of power.

Mismatched Drapes: Adobe Church

Adobe church initial visit-note discarded curtain on ground , an additional curtain was taken from floor or interior where it was found along side discarded hypodermic needles, human excrement, and under ware
Interior of Adobe Church with new occupants Dark Havens markings and installed replacement curtain

Mismatched Drape: Motel

While working on the replacement for the stolen magazine–a quilt that reproduced its back cover a friend remarked that while I was replacing the object I had neglected it’s function to tittilate– ‘You’re being evangelical, preferencing comfort over arousal ‘

I was prompted by this remark to reenacted and photograph replacements of the magazine’s interior– these photographs at wallet scale where tucked into the baseboards of the motel’s glory hole room

Throughout the mismatched Drapes project I recreate the deposited objects with fraternal twins–like objects that appear in galleries but are distinctly different in detail then the authentic Art objects which are released on site into unknown futures. In exhibition the forgery duplicates are accompanied with material and photographic documentation

installation including forgery quilt and photo-strip object at the Kennedy Museum of Art

Mismatched Drape: Trading Post

In this chapter of the project I engaged on the site of a defunct gas station and trading-post complex near the Arizona New Mexico border.

Three unilateral exchanges were made over a period of approximately 2 years.

Mismatched Drapes: Trading Post Drum

I removed the cardboard tube remains of a toy tom-tom reminiscent of a toy I possessed as a child, later I replaced it with a drum –made primarily from materials found on property I ‘own’ by legal deed in Ohio.

In the interim between his entrepreneurial act and return with the drum the site had transformed again becoming a site for illegal trash dumping.

Mismatched Drapes: Trading Post Broken Glass

Mismatched Drapes: Trading Post, God’s Eye