Glitter is the New Grass by Wendaferd Gregory, pseudonym for Gwendolyn Skaggs. It’s both tricky and sticky including oneself into a show at your own art space. But I did. For the one-year anniversary exhibit I wanted to make an artwork that exhibited the trials and tribulations of having and running such an endeavor in our living space. Glitter is the New Grass is an artwork about the labor, complexities, challenges, and satisfaction of maintaining and establishing an art exhibition space within a live/work environment, and the ability to present this act as an installation with the integrity of the “conventional gallery” and how doing so is somewhat of an invasion to our personal space. Making way to cut each hole in each closet without disturbing much of the immediate and neighboring surroundings was apropos, as was hitting my head on the pipe when retrieving something from the closets. The chair is evidence of items pushed out due to the need of more space. Balanced precariously against the wall with a glitter covered cracked seat the chair threatens to fall forward. A tricky situation when anyone desires to look through the protruding pipe to see what’s on the other side, and not knowing if they should or should not explore. I carefully placed blue glitter directly under the chairs seat crack into the cracks of the floor, like a Tibetan Buddhist making a sand mandala.
