Cast Sugar/Burnt Sugar

I've been drawn to the hexagon shape since a young child puzzling over the tiles on my grandmother's bathroom floor. With hexagon-shaped cast sugar tiles arranged in 6-fold symmetry, I could play with color and pattern to create seemingly limitless variations. 120º is the third in a series of cast sugar installations

In 2016, retired California College of the Arts Textile faculty, Carole Beadle and Lia Cook, were honored in the exhibition Lines That Tie: Carole Beadle and Lia Cook at the Museum of Craft & Design in San Francisco. Eight of their former students were invited to exhibit alongside them. I was asked to recreate Interlinked, a cast sugar installation, and to participate in MCD’s Visible Transparency Project. Halfway through the 4-month exhibition, for two Saturdays, the public was invited to watch as I laid out the outlines of molecular structures of mycophenolic acid, prednisone, and guaifenesin (medications I was taking at the time) on top the first installation. Guest Curator, Deborah Valoma; Exhibition Design, Ted Cohen; Curatorial Assistant, Ariel Zaccheo.

My first installation of Interlinked went through four iterations. Each new one was built on top of the previous one at 10-14 day intervals starting with 6-sided symmetry, then, molecular structures (corresponding to medications I was taking at the time: mycophenolic acid, prednisone, guaifenesin, and temazepan), then geometric figures, and finally random. Each earlier version remained in place.