Anima House installation at Open Studios, SOFA Collective, Oakland, 1998

approximate dimensions:
20 feet deep X 15 feet wide X 10 feet high

Installation is entered through open door at front, which leads through a narrow passage into a blue room with seating in the back.

Mixed media materials included:
wood structure, plumbing materials, astroturf, fur, digital images, tubing, nylon, fishing lizards, fishing bait, toy horses, multiple toy animals installed on the ground leading to building entrance, and more.

 

 

artists statement

The shadow is a tight passage,
a narrow door,
whose painful constriction no one is spared
who goes
down to the deep well.

But one must learn to know oneself
in order to know who one is.

For what comes after the door is, surprisingly enough,
a boundless expanse
full of unprecedented uncertainty,
with apparently no inside and no outside,
no above and no below,
no here and no there,
no mine and no thine,
no good and no bad.

It is the world of water,
where all life floats
in suspension;
where the realm of the sympathetic system,
the soul of everything living begins;
where I am indivisibly this and that,
where I experience the other in myself
and the other - than - myself
experiences me.

- Carl Jung