Installation 3

Miscellaneous

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Pest control companies in warm and dry climates frequently shroud suburban houses in colorful, temporary tarpaulins. These striped suits construct an airtight seal in order to pump the home full of sulfuryl fluoride, a toxic gas which kills nesting drywood termites. The ephemeral veils impose a formal and graphic ambiguity through which Modernist and Postmodernist structures are denied their iconicity. By way of both looseness of fit and misalignment of pattern & form, these deadly cloaks confuse familiar perspectives of canonical 20th century houses. This series documents the ongoing fumigation of several famous and infamous works of domestic architecture inducing, to borrow from critic David Bourdon’s description of Christo and Jeanne Claude's art practice, a process of ‘revelation through concealment’.