eric john olson

Two site specific sound installations of abandoned and boarded up crawl spaces were created for “Not to Scale”, the Smoke Farm Lo-Fi Arts festival. Together they try to recreate childhood memories of prohibited passages into an underground labyrinth of tunnels, connecting ideas and spaces across great distances. A series of sacred spaces that one could hide away prized possessions/reconnect/bury their past.

International District Tunnel in Seattle, WA

Smoke Farm Tunnel in Arlington, WA

Photos by Cindy Apple (1-3) and Timothy Firth (4-5)

Time lapse of building the “tunnel”

A series of works on paper that examine my childhood fears, hazing, adventures, and other distorted nostalgy.

For over 60 days I tried to gather statistics about my mood and a number of factors that I felt impacted it. In an attempt to correlate these two things I would draw and color a self portrait depending on how I felt and keep a tally of the different variables that could affect these moods. These variables included: hours of sleep I had, number of alcoholic drinks, cups of coffee, days since I last had sex, negative thoughts about myself, minutes of mediation, and minutes of exercise. From this data I created a number of stacked area graphs showing the distribution of these feelings by color in regards to each variable over the course of this social experiment. All of the graphs and portraits I collected can be seen on the Quantifying Contentment website.