"They Call Me Theirs"
A line from “Hamatreya” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hanging Garden
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The installation reverses the experience of the outdoors by neatly packaging
the four seasons in a “box set” that plays on a video monitor
inside a handmade hardwood box, suggesting that our efforts to purify our
experience with nature have actually taken us farther away from it.
A “hanging garden” composed of large scale ink jet prints on aluminum
sign panels, surrounds the Box Set. The prints were sourced from video stills,
then painted, and digitized, creating a luscious though synthetic environment.
The title of the work is taken from a line in the poem “Hamatreya” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which questions man’s desire to claim ownership of the land that is inherently owned by nature. In the poem, the Earth responds, “How am I theirs, / If they cannot hold me, / But I hold them?” Similarly, the exhibition holds a sound-insulated cabin or shrine for the viewer to enter. A handcrafted hardwood box containing a small personal monitor with images of the four seasons sits inside. Two different cacophonous soundtracks play from both the interior and exterior, highlighting the tension between the realities of the two environments.
Images are installed in multi-panel combinations, but are also created to stand alone. Tech aluminum panels can be used outdoors as well.
installation
12x8 ft
Weeping Willow #3 detail
18 panels for "Vines" as installed on the brick wall at The Rymer Gallery in Nashville (see image above).
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sizes:
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Hearts 60" 60" triptych