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
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”
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”
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”
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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