Lists is comprised of a series of approximately 4,000 drawings on 8 1/2” X 11” copy paper that are scattered on floor of the James Watrous Gallery at the base of a two-sided screen on which a video is projected. The video is an animation made from the drawings, which is done in such a way that it appears as though the drawings have fallen from above and accumulated at the base of the screen. In the same space is a 300 inch mirror mylar curtain with words cut out of it, and a plexiglass sculpture that rests on a base that is also inscribed.

All of the text used in the installation draws from a series of lists that I have kept over a period of approximately one year. These include shopping lists, names of books, authors and musicians, and any other needful things that were enumerated during that time period. The elements that comprise the installation each build on the words that make up the lists in different ways: accumulating, extrapolating, animating, projecting and filtering the information. By layering these elements in the gallery space, Lists connects the mundane world of the shopping list to other natural patterns like the daily movement of the sun, seasonal cycles that bring accumulations of leaves and falling snowflakes, and the slow accretion by which shellfish build their homes. We build our environment in a similar way, using simple lists as a way to help gather resources. In this sense our shopping lists are something like blue prints that drive a culture of consumption which in turn shapes so much of the architecture of our society and frames some much of our view of the world