Glad/Sad (2022–2024)
(Color / 1:15 min)

50" x 24" x 8.25" (inflated)
50" x 11.25" x 8.25" (deflated)
Latex Gloves, Wood Cabinet, Electronically Controlled Air Pump System, Tennis Balls, Polycarbonate Clear Tube and Cable Ties
Credit: Mitch Stein-Computerize Inflation System

Glad/Sad playfully delves into the significance of the number 3. It is profoundly connected to creativity, communication, optimism, and curiosity. The number 3 resonates with such concepts as the past, present, and future; the concept of a complete cycle—a beginning, middle, and end; and most importantly, for me, birth, life, and death. The 3 tennis balls inside the plastic tube give the piece a humorous and absurd undertone to this view of the life cycle. The sudden inflation and the slow deflation of the rubber gloves serve as quotation marks of sorts for both our sudden entrance into the physical world and the ultimate effects of aging on our physical being.

All living things succumb to this passage of time.