_other Nature
_other Nature - Cicadian Rhythm, 2021
Sugar Hill Children's Museum
Mixed Media on steel fence
34 x 18 x 14 ft
Soundscape by Michael Paul Britto
An art installation that metaphorically and literally illuminates perspective, supports contemplation, and challenges action to heal the damage done by the commerce-driven imposition of social, political, and physical barriers within our world. The title references how every seventeen years the cicadas speak to us, reminding us that there are cycles, rhythm, and balance in nature that we must respect. On one side of the fence, one encounters a lush, colorful vertical landscape referencing a healthy, robust, natural environment while the other side suggests a stunted world driven by commercial interests and ravaged by human intervention. The “Guagua” (Quechua for baby) sculptures, symbolizing humanity, live as inhabitants of this environment.
Image courtesy of Sugar Hill Children's Museum. Photos: Timothy Lee
_other Nature, 2020
Smack Mellon
12 x 26 x 24 ft
Steel fence, artificial flora, plaster and encaustic sculptures, blacklight, video projection, and audio track.
_other Nature explores the deep-seated links between nature and culture and the damage caused by the imposition of social, political and physical barriers. An immersive, glow-in-the-dark installation that evokes danger, fear, and risk in an environment that is simultaneously beautiful, disorienting, and haunting. Bisected by an imposing sculptural fence, the darkened space recalls a lush, thriving scene on one side and a ravaged, contaminated landscape on the other. “Guagua” sculptures populate the installation, like swaddled babies that represent humanity in an unsullied, but vulnerable state. - Gabriel de Guzman, curator
Image courtesy of Smack Mellon. Photos: Etienne Frossard
In Between Daylight, 2018
FiveMyles Plus Space
Mixed Media
11 x 13 x 14ft
Sound collage by Olivia Swisher
A site-specific installation that references ideas of danger, fear and risk taking in an environment that may be beautiful, disorienting and haunting all at the same time. The piece calls attention to what immigrants and refugees may experience while crossing treacherous political and geographical borders in forests, jungles and bodies of water across the world, filled with hope to reach an unpredictable future. For many this future may mean living in “negative spaces” with obscured identities, undocumented, in darkness and only to be seen in between daylight.
