𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓, 2024
vinyl fabric, roses, cement, astro turf, embroidery thread, embalming thread, gardening twine, 12 rose seeds, acrylic mirror, dyed ribbon, grommets, 6.5 ft diameter
Thinking about points of impact, and the organizational structures we create around significant experiences. Events that come in like comets and require us to remake & reknow ourselves around the hole. Visually considering the wheel of fortune, ancient cosmologies, stained glass architecture, ways of telling time, along with modern funerary aesthetics. How we stand in circles for ceremony & comfort, how a cyclical format connects & blurs the lines between ephemeral finiteness & continuity, a new connected shared space between.
I had the absolute gift of visiting La Sagrada familia this past May. Gaudi was a guy with *alot* going on, but what I was most struck by and what made me cry was his devotion to his work & how he designed the crypt for light to still be able to enter, a very beautiful space for the living too. Also thinking about political/spiritual systems that function in more horizontal rather than vertical ways, interconnected & web like.
