Your Color is Green
Your Color is Green (a Delirium) was an exhibition that Meghan Cox and I collaborated on with Paulownia Projects in West Philadelphia during the Spring of 2025.
from the press release:
“And having heard, or probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Fever dreams, ontological crises and uncertainty flood the current exhibition by Cox and Lunderby at Paulownia Projects where unknown interlocutors, bad décor and delusional relationships contribute toward dislocated, invented realities.
Haunted by Charlie Kaufman’s films and Samuel Beckett’s texts, the artists use painting, animation and sound to limn spaces between fantasy and banality.
The exhibition space is filled with sounds of footsteps, crunching leaves and an electrical hum that vibrates with the color interactions between the carpet, the gallery walls and Cox’s paintings. A field guide for a phantom arboretum has been provided, but the plant identification app was hallucinating.
For the exhibition, we built a projection space, painted the walls and ceiling a light violet color and we installed pale pink carpeting throughout the gallery.
Meghan made a collection of 10 oil paintings on paper mounted to wood panels that featured still lives with glass vessels, floral elements and vintage wall paper patterns. Her paintings included ambiguous text fragments between an unknown interlocutor and apparent conversant (possibly the same person or a ghost).
I made a field guide for an arboretum that does not exist and a digital animation from my tree drawings for the field guide. Across the hall from the gallery space is an enormous, crumbling sanctuary space formerly used by a congregation for church services. I was fortunate to have such a dramatic space as the architecture of the sanctuary for my first sound installation.