The Pull of Gravity
The Pull of Gravity
installation of life casts, glass aquarium, raw steel, led light source, and stainless steel wire
Harry Wood Gallery - Tempe, AZ
2011
It is the moment, the crystalline moment that drives us, that drags us, that forever moves us. Moments of experience and transition are states that define and punctuate our lives. Sometimes transitions are readily acknowledged, even welcomed and celebrated – a new love, the birth of a child, or reaching some milestone of achievement. Other transitions are more ambiguous, complex, and heartbreaking. Some we do not recover from, some we are not meant to get over – the loss of a parent, a failed relationship, or sickness.
The Pull of Gravity, explores ideas of suspension, tension, and isolation through an ongoing narrative. Amplified and exaggerated moments are suspended in prolonged tension and isolation, pinpointing moments of transition. Truncated limbs replace entire figures. With the impending movement halted, the ephemeral nature of experience is momentarily arrested and able to be examined.
Everyone experiences some form of these moments in their lives and it is my attempt to make something physical that represents the complex and contradictory emotions involved in life’s evolution. Personal meaning takes shape out of these moments.