As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold;
Her skin was as white as leprosy;
The night-mare Life-in-Death was she.
Who thicks men’s blood with cold.
-Samuel Coleridge

Coleridge translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

Ion. I thank you for your greetings—shout no more,
But in deep silence raise your hearts to heaven,
That it may strengthen one so young and frail
As I am for the business of this hour.—
Must I sit here?
-excerpt from 'English Literature'

English Literature translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

I could force nothing on him but a footman’s tooth, which I observed him to examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy for it. He received it with abundance of thanks, more than such a trifle could deserve.
-excerpt from 'Gulliver's Travels'

Gulliver's Travels translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

'They were godless men,' answered Cedric.
'Ay, and they drank out all the good wine and ale that lay in store for many a secret carousal when ye pretend ye are but busied with vigils and primes! Priest, thou are bound to revenge
such sacrilege.’
-excerpt from 'Ivanhoe'

Ivanhoe translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly, there shot along the path a wild
light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me.
-excerpt from 'Works of Edgar Allan Poe'

Poe translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou?
Surely no child of the woods: thine is too prideful a face.
Music that moves in thy gait, the wrought grace of thy sumptuous sandal
Tell thou art son to the gods, or high offspring of kings
-excerpt from 'Russian Poetry'

Russian poetry translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

"As you wish. But before you act, sleep on the matter. In the cold light of the morning you may see our two proposals in their proper proportions. Mine spells fortune for both of us. Yours spells ruin for both of us. Goodnight, M. Binet. Heaven help you to a wise decision."
-excerpt from 'Scaramouche'

Scaramouche translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

'I know your intentions are evil,' said Miss Pross, 'and you may depend upon it, I'll hold my own against them.'
-excerpt from 'Tale of Two Cities'

Tale of Two Cities translation

As part of my installation, 'Headspace', I translated classic literature into contemporary, 'millenial' language. The audio is a segment from the installation. The classic text is below:

For what purpose serve theses leagues? say they. As though nature had not set sufficient love between man and man.
-excerpt from 'Utopia'

Utopia translation

What I Never Said is a site-specific installation designed for the lobby of the Capitol Skyline Hotel during (e)merge Art Fair in Washington, DC.

The installation appears to be a white prison visitation booth, complete with barred viewing window, armored telephones, and booth dividers. Two viewers have the opportunity to sit down on either side of the booth and pick up a phone, A woman is speaking on the phone about a private and extremely personal event in her life. The audio was collected form the artist's female acquaintances as something that each female wanted to say to someone but never did. Each audio is not scripted, but a real, emotional situation.

If one viewer hangs up the phone, both phones go silent. If one viewer picks up the phone anew, a new woman begins to speak to both viewers. It is an installation that is meant to be experienced (and empathized) with two people.

This is Audio Track 3.

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