Zeitz, California

Current Exhibition

Zeitz, California is a station within Schatten-Parcours, created by Petra Mattheis and curated with Diana Artus. On view in the Wantalon app starting September 9, 2023

My new installation, Zeitz, California, was created in my Badger studio. A narrated video of the installation is a station in Schatten-Parcours, a digital, interdisciplinary project by artist Petra Mattheis. Visitors to Zeitz, Germany, are invited to view the city on foot, with app in hand, to view the city through the eyes of 8 artists and 2 artist groups, working with the theme of Shadows. Many thanks to Warren Casey for his help creating the video.

Using paper, relief prints, and papier maché, I have constructed the interior of a mountain cabin, and filled it with my hand-crafted souvenirs from a dilapidated yet idealized Zeitz — images of buildings and broken up classical sculpture. However, the view from this California habitation is of Yosemite — on fire. I aim to suggest the story of a Californian who has been to Zeitz and collected souvenirs of this once-ideal German location to decorate a cabin in their own clichéd, once-ideal mountain setting. Mutually yearning clichés, (under stress).