MURMUR
DATE: December 7th, 2024 - January 5th, 2025
LOCATION: Venice Beach, CA
GALLERY: Arcane Space
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 ... first triggered for me a sculptural and conceptual inquiry into migration – of species, peoples, atmospheres and viruses. Intentionally occupying the territory of “chandelier”, these calligraphic constructs embody frailty and hope, chaos and control, darkness and light, collapse and resilience.
This concept premiered on the civic scale as a permanent site-work for our state capitol on Nov 8, 2024, just a month prior to this installation. Titled And Then . . . – an eighteen-foot stainless steel feather balanced atop a thirty-three foot needle, celebrates the re-wilding of industrial rail line to public green space.
Ultimately these works compose an ever growing, conceptual site-work, wherein each piece contributes to a global swarm of tumbling feathers in our single, swirling, shared atmosphere.
Hope is a thing of feathers . . .