Wall Mural Installations, Animations, and Books.
Originally Commissioned and Presented by fundación/op.cit, Mexico City, MX 2023 and Reach Projects, Blue Hill, Maine, US 2024

Made in collaboration with Mexican artist Pablo Rasgado, Studio Rotation is a two part project that explores the foundations of contemporary mural painting as well as the cultural interconnections between the U.S. and Mexico.

For the first part of the project, 12 views of The Noguchi Museum (formerly his studio) in Queens, New York, were painted in sequential layers onto a wall in Pablo’s studio as part of an op.cit. residency in Mexico City. Documentation of these wall paintings was then arranged in sequence to create a representation of Noguchi’s studio appearing to spin within op.cit.’s walls. 

The second phase of the project involves taking a single view from the studio of David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico City and transposing it onto my studio ceiling as part of a residency at Reach Projects in Maine. The wall painting, with its hand drawn interlaced lines, becomes animated when moving stripes of light are projected onto the mural. 

To complete the project, Pablo removed both murals, extracting them using a restoration technique to peel them from their walls, and cut them into pieces transforming them into book form, creating a transportable mural.