Following the Fault Line
This is an older work that was re-made for this exhibition. The wall behind the work is painted robin's egg blue each time it is installed, connecting it to the architecture of the space. In 2008, a robin repeatedly attacked its reflection in my bedroom window, leaving hundreds of marks across the glass. Protecting its territory and young from a perceived threat, the robin repeatedly struck against its own reflection. I began to think of these traces as a drawing, a record of the fragile boundaries between self and other, interior and exterior, animal and built environment. In trying to protect what it cared for, the robin also harmed itself. This contradiction (between protection and harm, care and violence) echoes throughout the exhibition, including in the ways beliefs intended to protect, guide, or save can also cause harm.