“The mountain ridge and the hiker upon it; the trees and the nesting falcon, too”
Feb 2023
Cotton rope, colored thread, PVC pipe, pins
8' x 3' x 4'
This piece was intended to be a landscape. I wanted to make something monumental that transformed a human odalisque form into something abstract and organic. Like a cliffside, as the viewer explored the piece from various distances and angles, they would see the fissures and layering which created the form. I wanted the viewer to take on the role of geologist, discovering how the piece came to be and therefore understanding that the slow process of its creation was the art as much as its final form. All of the time spent on the work still lives in its' seams.
