Diamond Mind
The House of Gloves
April 28 – May 26, 1979

DIAMOND MIND is a media installation about the way images affect our lives: childhood images, media images that affect our biological functioning through our feelings of fear, anxiety, joy, and plesure. It is about the various connections and breaks everyone goes through in life. Its focus is the psychological affects created by the necessity to continually change one's own circumstances both in life and art, such as leaving home, getting married, taking another job, getting rid of an old lover, moving to a new location, leaving a creative context. It consists of a series of original designs made by the artist at a young age, a videotape and thirteen message readers each of which repeats:

"And he asked me why I was leaving.
And I said, "I'm not leaving, I'm going on, continuing.
Because if I stay, I'll stop going on."
And he said, "I hope you know what you're doing."
And I said, "I don't have any choice in the matter."
And he said, "Well, I wish you the best of luck."

DIAMOND MIND was completed in 1977 and has been shown at the Internationaal Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp and at the Art Foundation in Rotterdam. The videotape from DIAMOND MIND was shown at the Museum of Modern Art Projects Show in May 1978. This is the first time the entire installation will be shown in America.

THE HOUSE OF GLOVES is an actual house covered both inside and out with 9,000 knitted gloves in 27 different colors. Living inside the house by means of a television monitor are a pig, a mouse, a frog, and a rooster, not real animals but TV characters, glove puppets, technological personae who perform on videotape. These four characters carry on a dialogue about competition and the strategy for success. THE HOUSE OF GLOVES is a three-dimensional structure; it is also a representation of a social structure and the mental attitudes and roles that are played by the principals in that structure.