Remains

Residency installation at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Wyoming, USA. This work was also made to exploit both the specific shadows in the studio and materials offered by the landscape. These stems were collected from plants that died back over the winter, before new growth replaced them. Associations include bones or relics, some kind of excavation, perhaps tools or implements of some kind. The white of the stems seemed to glow from the background and the darkened parts seemed almost charred and there is some suggestion of divining, linking to past settlers (whose crumbling cabins still remain and their search for water during the dry season, Wyoming being a designated desert area) and to Native American Indian tribes driven from the area.