Overview
This installation is made up of 13 wall panels, each 8 ft x 3ft. They fit together to form a continuous landscape.
It is meant to be viewed in the dark, only illuminated by a rotating spot light that resembles the moon, a light house, a search light.
The moon hangs framed in the night sky as a distant object of idolization
and beauty. It can remain a pure and distant part of our subconscious,
but as with many proximal ideas, its approach brings destruction. As it
manifests into consciousness, the moon disrupts the terrestrial balance,
and all earthly things react. It simultaneously entices and threatens.
My work presents a mythical account of the creation of an interesting
world. It is an account of arrested feelings and the inhibitors of prosperity,
of self-defense and suffocating comfort, of how fixed cycles become an
unknown future. The generative thrust of creation, which is life, disrupts
the order of life. In our quest for pleasure, we have sown ecological
disarray. Cities choke on their own industry. The unthinking pressure of
our genes obliterates whole tribes. Lovers suffer discord in the act of
loving. We disrupt ourselves always. Often life seems to fall off balance,
but is this imbalance something we merely perceive, or do we create it?
Cycles can make us feel helpless, yet also comforted. The force of
change is also the impetus for evolution and growth. We are an
accumulation of every crisis that befell our ancestors. All sublunary
creatures exist precariously between the bright constellations of the past
and the looming mass of the future. We are part of the changing world.