Rhythm
As an artist in residence at Snow City Arts, I collaborated with pediatric patients of Rush Hospital to create this work. Visual imaging is very important in medicine and during my initial months at Snow City, computer monitors were installed outside patient rooms for nurses and doctors to visually analyze the captured data being collected by the machines hooked up to patients in the room. Fascinated with how digital imaging captures brain waves, heart beats, and other rhythms of our body, I worked with students teaching them how to complete basic supplemental weft tapestry weaving on a frame loom. Together with 25 patients, the process took over six months to complete. In addition, I collaborated with Jamie Topper, musician in residence, to capture audio rhythms that patients created. For the final installation, speakers were placed directly behind the 7ft. long tapestry and played the looped recording of the patients musical compositions.