Resolve

A site-responsive installation made during the Gullkistan residency, Iceland. Branches were picked up from the garden and anchored in the wall following, with some in pairs like antlers, so that they appeared to be breaking through. The work has considerable thrust, but also an eeriness to it, as if the wall is melting and the branches are slipping in, pouring out, something unnatural, also a shift in perspective, branches pushing through snow. The work was inspired by the presence of nature so emphatically manifested in Iceland that even indoors one is aware of one's fragility set against the earth's movements, powerful forces, volcanic eruptions, fractured tectonic plates, extreme weather. This links to the positive and negative relationships of the landscape to humans and vice versa as well as to the magic of Iceland.