Doing It Myself
These works show the unstable, imperfect, and arbitrary condition of human life. This is accomplished through devices which constantly repeat human movements while removing certain “uniquely human” gestures from their original context. Each machine tries (unsuccessfully) to imitate a culturally predetermined gesture, by using simple, non-anthropomorphic mechanisms: pouring liquid into a glass, smoking, or sheding “tears” are events that just happen, purposelessly, without the presence of a body.
