FORTUNATE

Large hand-painted reproductions of actual fortune cookie fortunes that I had collected over the course of several years. These were not every fortune received, but only the ones that seemed to resonate at the moment they were delivered with the bill. The little notes would be found periodically in my wallet and came to be seen as a set of reminders of a life I wanted to live and an appreciation for my life so far. Creation of the banners was a tedious process that forced me to focus on the meaning of the words as I carefully traced and painted each letter. The installation was a temple-like environment where people wandered through a maze of banners tilting their heads to read, their faces mostly blocked from one another.