Surrogate: Mother to Myself. (2017) Redwood, 600 feet of cotton lead line rope, brass, steel.
65 x 54 x 18 IN | 165 x 137 x 4.5 CM
Surrogate: Mother to Myself holds the tension surrounding the suicide of artist Pamela Djerassi on this ranch in Woodside, CA and was installed as a memorial through Allegra's work with Pamela's surviving family. "Mother to Myself" is taken from the title of her book of poetry.
Surrogate: Decommissioning. (2017) Japanese rice paper, iron, wood.
4.5 x 15 x 1.3 FT | 1.4 x 4.6 x 0.4 M
Installed at the Headlands Center for the Arts - a former American military base on Miwok land. "Surrogate: Decommissioning" responds to architecture designed in WWII to surveil the American border at the Pacific ocean for an attack from Japanese military forces which never came.
