( w a l l ) was a part of my senior thesis at MassArt and was exhibited in the Godine Family Gallery where I had been a co-curator and manager in the previous semester. The installation consists of a looped animation with sound running 2 minutes and 24 seconds, at the center of the projection is a title decal displaying the title card for the piece ( w a l l ) . The subject matter is a play on the title; various moving images of walls, literal, figurative, and abstract are used to create a montage-style exploration of the word and its various meanings . The seed came from my own experience as a gallery steward: constantly preoccupied with the state of the white walls and struggling to balance that with the other “walls” within everyday life. Language, finance, borders, solitude, boundaries. Bathrooms are also a theme I explore in my films –to me they represent a special kind of solitude and place for reflection. The loop begins with a standing figure that shifts incrementally to the sound of a banging tub. Shower sounds. The banging continues and the imagery strobes through landscapes, close-up images, and abstract spaces all representing the various forms of boundaries. The tone intensifies with a speeding pace and over-stimulating sounds. The figure appears throughout the piece and on its final clip is sucked into a time texture composed of wall rubbings. These wall rubbings for me are the core of the piece; finding closure, peace, acceptance and appreciation in the blemishes of the gallery walls. They become a metaphor for openings and cracks in the other forms represented. Boundaries are personal, systemic, natural and imperfect.