Navin June Norling.. WHITE WASH 2009

WHITE WASH 2009 was developed and launched in the summer of 2008 at Skowhegan in Maine. The process combines painting, sculpture and performance art to create large-scale totem pole-like structures. The structure is a loose grid (4x4) of salvaged windows upon which images have been painted. The idea is based in popular culture and uses iconic images of the past juxtaposed with images of popular modern logos and celebrities. Painting these nostalgic images on the glass windows to then be white washed is to erase archaic ideals or legacies that have been outgrown.

Using found materials, traditional painting and performance art, WHITE WASH 2009 recontextualizes and integrates these elements. The effect is a wall of windows that lack framing but still create the illusion of shelter despite the absence of a roof. The windows are stacked upon themselves in a seemingly haphazard fashion that gives the illusion of instability and unsettles the sense of a secure structure, leaving in its place an unconventional billboard.