Murmur
Arcane Space Gallery; Venice, CA
”If the world is a bell, then art is the hammer . . .”
My practice is an inquiry of site, scope and impact – the intuitive gesture in social space. I create large-scale permanent siteworks, most often in the public realm, to strike resonant openings in our quotidian facades. It is spectacle, generated from a rigorous studio practice based in drawing – ironically an intensely private act wherein control and accident is the essential relationship.
Murmur is an installation of these private studio works — amalgams of bamboo, brass, feather and light — that triggered for me a sculptural and conceptual inquiry into migration – of species, peoples, atmospheres, viruses. . . Eventually occupying and recontextualizing the territory of “chandelier”, these calligraphic constructs embody gesture and resistance, chaos and control, darkness and light, collapse and resilience.
Hope is a thing of feathers . . .