Sugar is a multi-phased interdisciplinary installation project created as an exposure of the tumultuous period for a girl coming of age in a sexualized and media-saturated culture.
Cornelius makes work about disturbed adolescent girls because she is disturbed by their experience.
This project was conducted in four phases.
Phase I: Collection of Text
Phase II: Writing of Text by teenage girls on the sidewalks in the neighbourhood. By allowing the girls to speak for themselves in public through the use of private written text, it exposes both their vulnerability and their strength
Phase III: Video Capture of the writing of text, which was used to create an art video.
Phase IV: Creation of Artifacts, which were mono prints pulled from the written text on the sidewalk. The text reverses in the process, indicative of the adolescent experience. The monoprints sustain an effect reminiscent of tears.
Funded through The First Video Fund at Video Pool, mentor Sandee Moore
