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Suspended Riverbed Installation Assemblage
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Suspended Riverbed c. 2007. Scale: 4′ high by 4′ long by 2′ deep. Shown as documented at Stafford Studios, Ottawa. Video sound is not intended as part of the installation, rather is one of those “happy accidents” of a school band practicing in the vicinity. Layered assemblage of upholstered boxes, each holding shapes of naturally compressed river mosses and debris found on the rocky shoreline of a shallow stretch of the Mississippi River at Carleton Place. The boxes are separated by clear plastic cylinders. There is metaphoric meaning in each of the installation elements, in their assemblage positioning, and in the visitor’s bending action to look between and into the boxes, thereby completing this work. The narratives relates to human mortality, resistance to letting go, and through kinesthetic perception awareness of our interconnection with the whole.
Suspended Riverbed c. 2007. Scale: 4′ high by 4′ long by 2′ deep. Shown as documented at Stafford Studios, Ottawa. Video sound is not intended as part of the installation, rather is one of those “happy accidents” of a school band practicing in the vicinity. Layered assemblage of upholstered boxes, each holding shapes of naturally compressed river mosses and debris found on the rocky shoreline of a shallow stretch of the Mississippi River at Carleton Place. The boxes are separated by clear plastic cylinders. There is metaphoric meaning in each of the installation elements, in their assemblage positioning, and in the visitor’s bending action to look between and into the boxes, thereby completing this work. The narratives relates to human mortality, resistance to letting go, and through kinesthetic perception awareness of our interconnection with the whole.
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