an/atomy
2020
Images from exhibition at MAB Museum, Milton, PA.
Works from an/atomy were also exhibited at Evergreen Museum and Library, The John Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD; Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC.
This exhibition features A Thing Attains A Life, a five-channel video with surround sound featuring dance and puppetry; Thing I-IX, sterling silver and foam sculptures; and Attainment I-VII, a suite of lenticular lens photographs. These works explore the temporal nature of life; an eternal potentiality of all form to undue and remake itself; the interconnectivity of all living things; and the beauty of impermanence.
The action in A Thing Attains A Life moves from mainly dance to mainly puppetry as six dancers manipulate abstract cobalt-blue forms into more and more complex combinations, cycling from amoeba to animal to human. These cobalt forms can be seen as abstract shapes in space but are also references to body parts, bones, atoms, and energy itself. Each sculpture in the Thing series is comprised of one of the blue foam forms used in A Thing Attains A Life, now plated in silver. Removed from the digital world of the video, they have been materially transmuted from one state of existence to another. The Attainment photographs use the endlessly repetitive quality of lenticular lens technology to explore the fluidity of time and space and the fleeting nature of life. Produced as stop-motion animations situated in a digital space, these works reside forever between stasis and motion, in a continual state of flux.
