Installation- detail		Installation- detail

This installation was made possible with a Project Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County.

In this installation, the text on the shelves was made by using stencils and latex paint overspray particles from spraying the shapes on the wall. The text was transcribed from a video taken earlier in the year.

Text

Hey, hey I gotta tell a story.
A story.
Oh yeah, go ahead.
Good story.
Storytime.
I, I am sick in my head. I need counseling.
Get outta here.
Counseling.
He needs gasoline!?
She.
She’s workin’ today, and I was act-… I was chokin’ her. Choke. I was chokin’ her.
Who?
OK.
The freak. Look, look slut. Look, look, look, slut. She’s dressed liked a slut.
Trash!!
No she is not!
Oh she’s a slut. She’s a slut
Low-class, white-trash!
She’s a slut.
You would never choke this human being.
I’m a born-again virgin, I can’t be a slut.
Her!?
She’s a, she’s a slut. She deserves a choke.
I’m a born-again virgin.
She’s a virgin on the… do what, what, what...
Tell your story.
Tell your story.
Shut the fuck up!
She’s in front of the house.
Hey!
I was chokin’ her.
Hey! Shut up, shut up!
I was painting a shelf!
Shut up.
Is this in this house?
He was strangling me.
He was strangling me, today.
She was workin’ in the backyard and I, I was stranglin’, and I, I was...
Ya’ll had an altercation.
Shut up, shut up, shut, shut the fuck up. You two shut the fuck up!
Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
What’s my name?
Bitch, shut the fuck up!
Daddy.
Stinky.
You don’t talk to your father that way.
Hurry up and tell your story.
If you shut up! Everybody shut up!
You call daddy by his name, son.
She was workin’ outside and so I, I was actin’ like I was chokin’ her.
And she fuckin’ had a heat gun!
She was, she was doin’... I have a little shelf.
Nevermind. I’m sorry.
No kidding.
This is awful. Hurry up and tell your story.
She was, she was. She was, She was. She, she was shootin’...
She burned him.
She was… shut the fuck up! She was shootin’ the shelf with the heat gun and I was stranglin’ her, like, like this…
How many times has he said that!?
and she hit me with the fuckin’... she hit me with the tool…
How true is this?
Huh?
and burned my fuckin’... She burned my meat.
How true is this?
It’s true.
She burned my meat.
She burned my meat!
She burned my meat!!