"And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but ONE page" -Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818)

I can recall adult's rhetoric: Why is history repeating itself? I often feel the electric shock that accompanies an oopse I did it again.

We fall into the same problems even though we've come up with habits, guaranteed solutions, equations and more to address this.

My wonder of what keep us falling into the same situations is what inspired this installtion. Each Excerpt is a hair in the story of life.

It is the same story, so abstracted so as to pertain to experiences micro and macro; it is the one page Byron spoke of. These bricks

are abstracts of folklore, mythology, and epochs, or shorts, of overcoming problems. It is the most significant and moving story we

have to offer: One's rise and fall and change. In Excerpts, each new story, a new brick, is piled onto the old to make a brick wall.

Installation at Governor's Island Art Fair, 2013
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