107 Days / 100 Drawings is an installation made up of mainly ink drawings on pages from the Houston Chronicle newspaper and on watercolor paper. At the start of the year, I began to collect used gloves at local construction sites previously worn by immigrant workers. For 107 days, I drew the gloves while listening to National Public Radio, where I followed the first 100 days of Obama's presidency. Inevitably, these drawings are in direct conversation with the current financial crisis, and places at the center of the discourse, the actual gloves that are like the shells of these marginal but essential hands shaping our world.
Exhibition at Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 2009