I have been experimenting with work that measures time. I set out to build clocks and instead have made fossils.
Petrified Forest is a collection of artifacts that attempt to measure the passage of time by concentrating on the inconsequential and the ephemeral. There are two bodies of work in this project. One is concerned with measuring time through artifacts of events; specifically patterns from gift-wrap, stripped of their color and softness to become skeletons frozen in stasis. The second uses hash marks as counting pieces that reference the exquisite tedium of boredom and waiting. Waiting for the right moment, waiting for something to happen, watching the moment pass.
Click here to read the exhibition catalog essay by Ray Davis.
Petrified Forest
2009
Sandblasted gift wrap patterns on glass 24” x 24” x 4”
Can something be both ephemeral and significant? I am interested in how we judge the significant and the ephemeral.
These pieces are meditations on the passage of time. By taking the patterns out of their usual context (having the patterns dissolve, etch the glass) I experiment with experiencing time, marking time and measuring time. Which leads me to a question—are experiencing, marking and measuring time connected, and could they all be the same thing?
Acid etched hash marks on glass, 6” x 42” x 1”