Trickle Down

Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money
Trickle Down, 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, 2010
Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money
Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money
Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money

Trickle Down (shredded money detail)

Trickle Down (house detail), 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each)

Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money
Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money

Trickle Down (fishing line detail)

Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money
Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery, Portland, ME (2010)
1.5 x 2 x 2 inches (each), 14 x 12 x 9 feet (total installation), security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money

Trickle Down opening night at Coleman Burke Gallery Portland, 2010

Trickle Down opening night at Coleman Burke Gallery Portland, 2010

Trickle Down opening night at Coleman Burke Gallery Portland, 2010

Trickle Down installation at Coleman Burke Gallery Portland, 2010. 
Photo by Jonathan Damour.

Trickle Down installation at Ann Street Gallery Newburgh, NY, 2011.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

Trickle Down installation at Ann Street Gallery Newburgh, NY, 2011.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

Trickle Down installation (detail) at Ann Street Gallery Newburgh, NY, 2011.
Photo by Safe Harbors of the Hudson.

Trickle Down installation at Ann Street Gallery Newburgh, NY, 2011.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

Trickle Down installation at New York Studio Gallery, NYC, 2012.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

Trickle Down installation at New York Studio Gallery, NYC, 2012.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

Trickle Down installation at New York Studio Gallery, NYC, 2012.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

Trickle Down installation at New York Studio Gallery, NYC, 2012.
Total installation approx. 5W x 6D x 10H feet. Each house 1.5 x 2 x 2 inches, security envelopes, fishing line, shredded money, foam core.

The houses of Trickle Down float on an invisible plane arranged into neighborhoods based on early American suburbs. Above them is their means of suspension – an even matrix of fishing line creating a hard downpour; below is a green lawn of shredded US currency. Named after the theory that made Reaganomics infamous, the installation’s cookie cutter houses are constructed from the security envelopes of financial institutions, like the very ones that helped contribute to the 2008 real estate bust.