Learning to Breathe Underwater / House on Fire is a registered projection installation. It is made up of a composited, and projected image of a prince having sex with a mermaid on a canopy bed, made using three video projections and five overhead projections. The drapery of the canopy bed is projected through dishes of water animated by fans. The viewer uses an aluminum “slipping slide” fastened to an overhead projector to activate the act of intercourse between a prince and a mermaid – implicating the gallery visitor in the perverse gesture.

House on Fire uses 3 overhead projectors to create the image of a large box of tissue on another wall. A large mechanized pinwheel suspended over one of the projectors provides a never-ending billow of tissue rising from the box. There are 10 cardboard-mounted slides piled next to another projector. Each features a 2-frame, “lenticular” animation of a pattern, which is animated only when the viewer drags it across the surface of the projector.