Flashes of neon and the glow of my 1980s television set were the essential mentors in my early years.
Growing up I was over saturated with cartoons and sitcoms. I had much difficulty separating the dilemmas of real life with those from scripts of mock families crafted for my weekly entertainment.
Sadly, my real life fell short of these fictional/animated adventures.
These images document performance work and also are photographs.
The boards measure 96x 48 in.
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In Getting to Know You, an ongoing series that exists as performance, sculpture, and photographs, participants position themselves inside cut-out board scenes reminiscent of amusement park photo ops. The adopted milieu is often a disconcerting domestic realm with an air of passivity despite the contortion of the participant's body. Participants flop like mute ventriloquist dolls caught between two worlds-- literally part of Mayer's object narrative-- Peter Rabbit and Roger Rabbit-- a tourist in their own time.
