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Thinking Caps |
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Mountains are our icons of lofty, sublime, and wild nature. We imagine the experience of so called wilderness to be separate, outside domestication. In this installation I suggest a mountain landscape made for urban conditions. Our imagination of the mountain, as a place of solitude and inner reflection, is re-created in an interior space. Four mountains, arranged in an orderly manner, each offer sounds of water, ice, or other elements of a mountainous landscape. The gallery is treated as an interior garden, a miniaturized landscape. Passing through the gallery space and sitting within the interior of a mountain, the grand vista of landscape is brought to human scale, immediate and accessible. At the same time, this fabricated landscape is clearly fragile and ephemeral, made of paper and recorded sounds. Installation at Jack
Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA |