Fathouse
The temporary, sight specific installation ‘fathouse’ was intended to be ironically grotesque. This small environment draws inspiration from the very place that it was exhibited: Chicago’s meat packing district. This area remains in an odd fluctuation between the laborers that work in processing plants and the stylish that seek out the areas trendy clubs and galleries. Fathouse aspired to juxtapose the area’s two conditions by providing a space that retained some of the programmatic elements typical to nightly activity but evoked the grisly tasks that take place during the day. Wine spigots embedded in the structure drip down the flabby interior walls like blood flows to the drains just a block up the street. At the center hangs a lamp made of bacon, the thinly sliced strips become strikingly luminant while filling the air with the odor of processed meat.
