Their Pending Quiescence
Imagine slipping through a black portal and entering into another realm. Part cave, part art project, all sensory. Are you alone? No. What happens when you move around? Everything else moves too, and if you touch anything the space will mark you, just as you marked it.
For this installation viewers entered through a blacked out passageway and into a very dark space. As their senses adjusted they smelt the fresh fire charcoal that coated the walls, and soon came in very close contact with 30+ stalactite-like sculptures of various sizes and tones hanging from the wax ceiling. One’s presence in the space caused the hanging sculptures to sway slightly; if one stood silent and still in the cave a slow whirring sound could be heard from within some of the pieces.
Some people could flow through the space the full path, others turned out immediately. Many found it a spiritual experience simply being alone with the work. Who is Pending in this space?
Installed in three separate locations, 2000-2001. This was a very early project, back when I was still using a film camera and not thinking about the use for future reference photos. Images here brightly lit (not final project lighting). Materials: nylon, rocks, parafin wax, hand-made charcoal, fabric, paper, sound.
