Horizon Object

This body of work explores suspension in both a physical and conceptual sense. In the series Horizon Object, I am drawing Romantic skyscapes in graphite pencil on slabs of alabaster from the Mojave desert. Strung from a wire, embedded with geologic time and weight, the rock support makes the image of sky feel impossibly heavy, both ready to crash to the ground at any minute or turn in a breath of air. The work activates a liminal biospheric space between the sky and ground planes that envelop life on earth and an unexpected sense of compression. Touched Day documents the objects I’ve reached for, and held in my hand, and let go over the course of a day. Grapes, meat, velvet, mulch, tools, chemicals, cleaners, a silver spoon and plastic scrubbers, the ever present creep of cords, batteries and digital devices, the wild diversity of a typical encounter with the physical world and my ostensibly inanimate surroundings. Everything is photographed midflight, entropy looms, and the blue print suggests an ominously submerged final resting state.