Don't Touch My Chains

Don't Touch My Chains features four paintings mounted on Roombas that roam the gallery floor. The canvases carry printed phrases that frame and anthropomorphize their movement. Hopefully, the journey of the paintings becomes a reflection of the human condition, specifically the tension between freedom and constraint, success and failure, aimlessness and purpose. The artist intends for the paintings to read as human analogs, establishing a sense of recognition between the viewer and the work. Ideally, the show would illicit a reaction along the lines of "My God, I've lived like that. I've felt like that."