Tap Dance Drums (2023)

Instruments built from repurposed scrap wood and scrap metal and activated by tapping or maneuvering them with my feet to make rhythm.

A short, square, fluorescent orange platform with wide, square columns as its legs, resembling a microchip. The platform's top is a flat, light brown square of wood.

Tap Dance Drum (Orange), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, spray paint, screws
16 1/4” x 14 7/8” x 4”

A square, metal sheet slightly elevated off the ground with two short, monochrome, fluorescent pink hollow squares on top

Tap Dance Drum (Pink), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, repurposed scrap metal, spray paint
22 1/4” x 24” x 5”

A small metal ramp shaped like a fat, inverted L and supported by two spaced-apart, parallel, monochrome, fluorescent yellow sheets shaped like right triangles

Tap Dance Drum (Yellow), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, repurposed scrap metal, spray paint, angle brackets, screws
27 3/4” x 24” x 12”

A medium-size, long and narrow, monochrome fluorescent green sculpture with a surfboard-like shape stacked on top of a number of geometric shapes and a long, skinny acute triangle as its base.

Tap Dance Drum (Green), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, spray paint, metal hinge, screws
52” x 9 3/4” x 5 1/4”

Appearance:
Liquidator: Yale Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition
Yale School of Art
March 6 – 11, 2023