Transcendental Smoothie
Multi-Channel video installation, 3’-8’ clear Latex balloons, music
Through playful and unexpected use of materials and camera viewpoints, the artists transform the Lawndale Center for the Arts main gallery into a kaleidoscope world of cookie dough, vultures, and monumental peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that bring questions and ideas of perception, identity, family and everyday pressures. “Transcendental” refers to Kant’s theory that our experience of things is about how they appear to us, but not about those things as they are in and of themselves. “Smoothie” refers to our use of food and everyday objects and the blending of many items to make something delicious.
