Forget-me-not
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY, 1999
collaboration with Stephen A. Lewis and Renee Zettle-Sterling
Informed by Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass : The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, Even," this huge installation included mannequins and other found objects from Erie's historic Isaac Baker men's clothing store to consider themes of separation. A 17 foot high spinning "bride" was observed by a huge, tweed-clad, two-headed sperm. He watched his beloved turn and transmitted his view to a television monitor which commanded the full attention of the bachelor mannequins assembled in an adjacent room. Three slim bed frames, along with video and audio recordings offered fragmentary details in the lives of the three collaborating artists and their unavoidable physical separation from their spouses.
- staff writer. Edinboro Artists Explore Separation, Erie Times-News. p.6D, Sept 19, 1999
- Wellman, Charlotte (unpublished)
