here is a sculpture i made in june and july. it's the first actualized piece in a series i first started envisioning in 2004. i had been working with white vertical lines which bulged in places. there was a sense of hanging and stasis. some lines seemed like collapsable hollow tubes through which a bulging something might descent. the suspended stillness and the slow descending of the unnameable disguised form had my full attention. Not long after making the pieces with lines and what I later came to call "fertile dormant sacs", I began to imagine more shapely forms with inner spaces. Most were columns of some sort. Still white. For the first year of seeing them, the columns were either completely suspended, like this one, or touched only the ceiling or the floor. At first they were too narrow to get inside. then they grew. When they connected to the ceiling or floor, they were pesky and in my way- coming down from the ceiling so that you might bump your head on them, or up from the floor enough to trip and fall over. There was always a forest of them. It was so long before I saw a single column alone, and by the time I envisioned a column that connected the ceiling and the floor, I was so used to seeing incomplete forms that I was shocked. when i first saw this one, it was brown inside and i could get inside it. i felt utterly peaceful and at ease when i was.
