Something Beautiful Calls and We Rise
2001
Radford University Campus
33' x 10' x 12'
white stained wood, steel, 100 ladders borrowed
from Levering Orchard, Ararat, Virginia
Are We Not All Leaves
Afloat On a River of Time?
2002
Snowshoe, West Virginia
Rise Up - Holland
2002
Holland Arts Council,
Holland, Michigan
33' x 10' x 12'
100 ladders borrowed from the
community, sculptures of mine
with ladders in them, panels on
wall with quotes containing the
word ladder,
visitors wrote
ladder related stories in a book
Fallen
1994
Radford University Campus
12' x 100' x 80'
made from trees damaged in an ice storm
Rise Up - Floyd County
2004
Jacksonville Center For The Arts
Floyd, Virginia
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Installations have given me opportunities to work with a variety of places, spaces and materials. They have also provided contact with people in contexts other than the traditional gallery setting. For my “Rise-Up” installations, when borrowing ladders from people, businesses, or organizations, I have had to explain to them that I wanted to use them to create a metaphor for the community - leaning on each other and tied togather, rising up. I have also enjoyed making work in public spaces where they can reach an audience that did not necessarily expect to encounter art. Installations have a way of bringing me and my art closer to life. |
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