Imagined with front yard

Installation Description

Description:

Home is more than a physical installation; it is a memory, an ideal, a future.

My vision of Home will incorporate many of the traditional and expected pieces that make up a persons residence, all created from fabric::

A lush green front yard
Patchworked green fabrics as grass, knitted green yard, and crocheted flowers attached as a garden

A walkway to the front door and white picket fence
Gray patchwork weaving its way to the front door thru the grass of the yard, a white picket fence acting as a way to step into the installation as well as a source of lighting at night

A growing tree beside the house
Wood, wire hangers, and chicken wire wrapped to make a trunk and covered in brown patchwork fabric. Recycled cardboard covered in green fabric as the leaves

A backyard equipped with a pool and rock formations
Blue patchwork formed into a circle creating a pool/lake surrounded by pillows covered in gray patchwork and adornments to give the appearance of rocks and seating

A full sized housing structure, large enough to be lived in, epitomizing a ranch style home
-An indoor wall covered with safety pins, fabric, and pens to encourage thoughts, dreams, images to add to the art inside -Pillows covered in multi-colored patchwork as seating

Arial View of Home Layout

Artist Background

Artist Background:
THERESA GALEANI

Education
Marymount Manhattan College – New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre Arts – 2009

University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Student – 2002

Collective Participant
Atypic Thoughts
Your Boyfriends Band Sux
The Suns Birthday
Circle Arts

Previous Exhibitions
Beta Spaces – Brooklyn, NY
The Nut Roaster, Brooklyn Fireproof – Brooklyn, NY
Market Hotel – Brooklyn, NY
Bowery Poetry Club – Manhattan, NY
Cake Shop – Manhattan, NY
Goodbye Blue Monday – Brooklyn, NY
Figment – Gov. Island, NY

Wickerman – Artuas, PA

Renderings concerning the frame of the HOME, thanks to Gaines Soloman!

Now imagine a front yard, a back yard, walkway, white picket fence, etc. All covered in hand sewn patchwork fabrics!

Pleading My Case:::

Pleading my case:
I have been dedicated to making this installation a reality for the last 2 years, however, money and space have held me back. Last year I found myself with a grant and donations totaling $500, and made it go FAR creating a single room “Hippie Home” version and shared the piece at “Wickerman” in Pennsylvania, “Figment” arts festival on Governors Island, NYC, Central Park, and various art showings.
Space is no longer an issue, I have been given the opportunity to work for free at a friends art space in Brooklyn, NY. Preemptively I’ve already gotten my hands on three sewing machines and a long list of workers ready to donate their evenings to stitching and bitching in exchange for the odd pizza pie. I already have use of a fantastic architect who has assisted with the plans and scaling of the project and will also be on the playa assisting in the build.
I have lived my adult life in New York City, the American Metropolis. I love the nightlife, the art, the culture, it is, after all, “the city that never sleeps”. However, my childhood in small town America has created some personal confusion; a sincere duality between lights and glamour and a quiet seashore.

While Creating....

All art comes at a cost, while cutting found fabric with a circular cutter I cut off a good chunk of my finger. Ah, the price we pay for art...