The Jean Herald Collection, interactive site-specific sculpture for the Blanchard Student Center, archival cardboard, foam, hot glue, and found objects, 16.5″ x 17.5″ x 16.5″, 2021
The Jean Herald Collection features three archival storage boxes carefully enclosing three found objects. Each of these objects have little value on its own, but when carefully enclosed in multiple layers is made to seem important. In this way, the work questions the somewhat arbitrary decisions that determine what art is valuable and merits preservation. The need to create an appointment to view the “art” objects and the multiple encasings reflect the multiple barriers to accessing art in an institutional setting. Similarly, as a work that is both hyper-visible because of its location and difficult to view, it calls attention to the typical inaccessibility of art within museums.