submission by
MelinDa Smith Altshuler
Dead Friends Directory and the Butterfly Tower
20 minute performance at Marcus Kuiland-Nazario’s Sea Change Lab
Video 5:08 min. hosted on the !8th St. Arts website
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision - Detail 2 - 2021
Site-Dictated Installation @ 18th Street Arts Airport Campus
chairs, cords, framed photos, light.
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Orange Memorial Tent midcity- Detail 2 - 2020
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision
Framed Ink Jet Print 9”x9”x1 1.25”
Green Tent WLA - Detail 6 - 2020
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision
Framed Ink Jet Print 9”x9”x1 1.25”
Blue Tent WLA - Detail 4 - 2020
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision
Framed Ink Jet Print 9”x9”x1 1.25”
Silver Tent WLA - Detail 3 - 2020
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision
Framed Ink Jet Print 9”x9”x1 1.25”
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision - Detail 1 - 2021
Site-Dictated Installation @ 18th Street Arts Airport Campus
chairs, cords, framed photos, light.
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision - 2021
Site-Dictated Installation @ 18th Street Arts Airport Campus, Installation Shot
chairs, cords, framed photos, light.
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Me - Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness / Correcting Vision - Detail - 2021
photo credit: Bailiwik
Lenticularis, Weirdest Clouds in the Sky and Unforeseen Circumstances - 2020
Site Dictated Installation @18th Street Arts, Airport Campus
Antique cabinet, leather chair, could of teabag paper, drawn wall clouds, framed collage
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Lenticularis, Weirdest Clouds in the Sky and Unforeseen Circumstances - detail - 2020
Leather chair and suspended opened cloud form of teabag paper and aviary wire
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Where Humankind and Nature Collide - site-dictated installation
Japanese translucent papers, aviary wire, bullets, fillament, wishbones, furniture, light
StART Up Art Fair, Hollywood CA
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Where Humankind and Nature Collide - detail - site-dictated installation
StART Up Art Fair, Hollywood CA 2016 Detail
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Solution for a Dry Field
Chicken wire, paper of tea bags, garden hose, vintage nozzle, pail
6.5’ x 2.5’ x 2’
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Flying by the Seat of…
old chair, paper from teabags, chicken wire, light,
37” x 24” x 24”
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Jacob’s Ladder Was Not Only His
Re-used rope, clouds of paper from tea bags, chicken wire, wood, light.
12’ x 6’ x 4’
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Blue Wave under a Red Sky
Cast-off Wrought iron, painting scrap, wood shelf.
8”x 24”x 4”
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Combination of Opposites
Unique solar plate photo etching on translucent panel of used tea bags paper
in a Riker Mount.
14”x 21”x 1”
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Diaphanous Dwelling
Unique solar plate photo etching on translucent panel of used tea bags paper in a Riker Mount.
14”x 21”x 1”
photo credit: Gene Ogami
Satisfied, Content and at Peace with Itself
Unique solar plate photo etching on translucent panel of used tea bag paper in a Riker Mount. 14”x 21”x 1”
photo credit: Gene Ogami