The REplay Series explores gender, sexuality, and memory through psychological loops shot on Super8 film and transferred to video, suggesting home movies or a flickery memory. Objects, rhymes, games, technologies, stories and even taunts from childhood reverberate both personally and culturally. Here, a woman tries to remember and forget by enacting and reframing old gestures. Video and sound loops on LCD screens are embedded into objects and projected, some repeating endlessly while others controlled by the presence of the viewer or the whims of the live stock market.

In front of a projection is a seat resembling a piano bench with the word ‘Replay” stitched into it. The image begins to move when someone sits down, frozen in time until activated by viewers - like a memory long forgotten until triggered by something in the present. An ultrasonic sensor registers viewer presence to activate the imagery and freeze the image when viewers leave the piano bench. Audio (sometimes on headphones) acts as a counterpoint to these film echoes of the past, twisting them and layering their meaning.

One element is an open hatbox. A small monitor buried in salt is inside. It plays a video loop of a mouth that continually tries to take in the salt it is fed, but eventually has to spit it all back up.

Playback of footage of climbing a giant ladder to an idealized home is literally controlled by the volatile up and down fortunes of the stock market and the larger economic climate it reflects; yet the goal is perpetually out of reach.

In some showings two monitors are rigged in a pulley system. These loops focus on gestures of remembering and forgetting, trying to put them in balance.

Another element is a sculptural piece about the inability to psychically 'fit' the ideals of femininity. It includes stiletto heels filled with dissection pins and a tiny compact mirror that endlessly tries to find a shade of lipstick that 'works' to no avail.

Funded by in part by the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY and a UUP IDAP Award.