there is a privacy to our personal systems of order.  what we choose to keep and the manner in which we organize it speaks equally of our daily functioning and a broader set of priorities.  in sorted, issues of sentimentality and personal history have been removed to explore how individuality develops through the organization alone.

for this installation I transformed the gallery space into a site of production.  i relocated all twelve of my kitchen drawers and contents to the swell gallery.   each day of the exhibition I arranged to have a different individual come to the gallery to re-sort the content back into the twelve drawers.  the sorters included a patent attorney, a miniature builder, an artist/cook and the members of an archiving class.  after each guest sorted the contents, the drawers were photographed and the contents inventoried and returned to a large table.   the photographs and inventory lists were then presented on the wall, allowing viewers to compare the daily sorting.

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