These images were produced through and from the installation project “Rachel’s Knife,” which I created with David Harrington. We created the installation by using chance operations to choose objects to get from the free stuff section on Craig’s List.

After acquiring a room full of stuff the next stage was to decide what to do with it, and then to compose the work, and create more work from that.

The chance operations component in a sense was a use of surrealist techniques where random actions are performed and then the artist produces work using that with the potential of creating “happy accidents,”
or “synchronicity,” or “resonance,” (or insert analogous word from the philosophy of your choice here.)

And by using chance operations the artist can incorporate elements into the work that s/he would have never consciously chosen or come up with–in the hopes of creating truly unique combinations.

See “cut-up technique,” and”aleatory.”

Click one of the images to see the gallery.