Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business is a performance/installation that lasts the run of the exhibition. The performance is the work process itself: The artist will create a multi-wall mural out of photo-printed post-its that will cover the entire gallery. This post-it mural will depict the social entrapment of the everyday white-collar workforce. In creating this mural, the artist subjects himself to a robotic routine through systematic repetition which will parallel a 9 to 5 office job. 

I am mesmerized by the drudgery of daily office routine. The pattern I have established in the creation of these kinds of murals attempts to replicate this drudgery. By subjecting myself to a mind-numbing process, I will also create and exhibit the mental state fallen into in performing iterative tasks. I want the process to be accessible and comprehensible. Spectators will be allowed an intimate look at artists creating rather than merely the finished work. -Artist

The materials used are those found in an ordinary offices: a computer to process the image, a printer to transfer the image, and the post-its that will become the mural. The main objective is to create a strong and disquietingly self-reflexive presence within our work environment - in this case a work environment interlayered with an art environment. The final result will be a minutely detailed and overwhelming visual space. The performance in the space will give viewers a vivid sense of the intensity and effort required to create such a self-contained and self-replicating project.