Jenifer Wightman
science+art
Week 6
September 11, 2004
Installation: Ithaca, NY USA
Transforming Colorfield
Photo by Johnna MacArthur
1973
Fact.
2006
Revilo and Nancy Wightman Pointing to ~1973 on Population Chart
Self Portrait
Fascist Fashion Show
2003
Performance: Venues Throughout the NorthEast USA
Political Satire on a CatWalk
Photo by Carrie Chalmers
2007
Installation: Bygstad, Norway
Scientific Depiction of the Garden
scientific graphics re-tell the story of genesis
2003
Group Show: Ithaca, NY
Currency Lures
Currency from around the world are flattened by a coal train and turned into fishing lures.
Surd
2002
Installation: Ithaca, NY
Ecological Footprint
Depiction of one Cornell University student's land area needed to sustain his or her paper consumption.
Corn and Beans
2004, Stolen
Installation: Ithaca, NY
Homage to Seed Librarians
Native American heritage corn and bean seeds are sealed in testtubes and hung next to a monocropped field of corn.
2007
Installation: Columbia, SC
Democracy of Decomposition
Cotton seed hulls, coffeegrinds, and oak shaving wastes build this corinthian style column of mushroom re-distribution.
200 cans
In Process: 2005 to present
Installations: public libraries in the NorthEast USA
Edible Art
Home grown heritage tomatoes are canned and given away in exchange for a description of how the recipient will use this source of energy.
Abject Light
2008
Route 120, Plainfield NH
200 road reflectors lit by passing headlights
a roadside 'Clapper', if you will.
Global Warming Bed
2007
Bissel Gallery: Ithaca, NY
Domesticating Scientific Graphs