Elegy 1, 2015
       
     
Elegy 2, 2015
       
     
DiRosa_10-detail.jpg
       
     
Threshold, 2011
       
     
Threshold, detail
       
     
Elegy 1, 2015
       
     
Elegy 1, 2015

Film stills from 'Prelude to a Kiss' and 'Kate and Leopold'; video stills from youtube broadcast of Fukushima hydrogen explosion.

Elegy 2, 2015
       
     
Elegy 2, 2015

Excerpts from 'Medical Terminology Study Card series', film stills from Sleepless in Seattle, and youtube broadcast still from Japan tsunami.

DiRosa_10-detail.jpg
       
     
Threshold, 2011
       
     
Threshold, 2011

An art installation containing over 80 red onion “rescues” (about to be removed from the grocery store shelves), a hidden fan, and two-channel audio. 

Inspired by a haiku I wrote while an artist in residence at Hambidge Center in Georgia:

sorrow breathes into
tight spaces that lie waiting
river tumbles on

Threshold, detail
       
     
Threshold, detail

In this installation, a table of onions lay waiting, their skins moving from the air of a hidden fan.  The sound of rushing water quietly accompanies.  Inhabiting a kind of liminality, the onions exist on the threshold of hope and sorrow.  If the onion is left, it sprouts, if cut into, it produces tears.  The above image is documentation at the end of the 30 day exhibition.