Closed Systems X & Y
Animated breathing forms side by side, as inside caskets. Are they communicating? The distinction between the mechanical and the organic is blurred in this work that breathes, moves and seems to process a “life blood”. Forms examine the notion of interiors—particularly as related to the body.
Mary Jones essay in the catalog for the Gadsden Museum exhibition: “Ventilators, incubators, iron lungs, virtually all the machinery of life support and medical imaging are evoked, both beautiful and grotesque, holding the viewer in suspension between awe and empathetic vulnerability.”
Materials: plastic, electric blowers, lights, relays, rubber, and paper fiber
Size: 10’ x 66’ x 18’ ea.