The FREENOTFREE installation was exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in the spring of 2001.

Our market driven society is constantly bombarding us with free offers. As a result we come to believe that if we don’t pay money for something its automatically free. FREENOTFREE asks the question -what is really free? It questioned the nature of “free” labor and investigated the basic transference of energy which is present in every form of exchange whether, physical, emotional, economic or psychic. It brought  us together as a community to remember everyday acts of love, kindness and support that are freely given and freely taken. It honored people whose actions were integral to our physical and spiritual sustenance.

The stories that people shared with me involved actions of comfort, tradition and care giving and became the basis of the FREENOTFREE installation. It celebrated acts of comfort and love that are both mundane and extraordinary and express some of the deepest expressions of human emotion and defy absorption or control by the boundaries of a market society