wood,clay, felt
8’H S 40’W x 15″D
A small woolen hooded jacket with the edges of maps cut into the hems, hangs on a branch. Maps of all the continents of the world fall from a sleeve and hang on the opposite end of the branch. A fragment of a woolen blanket cut into the map of an urban plan hangs from a branch behind these maps. A small bird, as if seen from a great distance, overlooks the maps below.
The sculpture presents the viewer with a freeze frame of an absent figure temporarily in stasis during a larger transit. The one to one scale of the child’s jacket is juxtaposed with the great distances of the entire world, seen in miniature in the continental maps cut out of felt. The plan of the unnamed city, also cut out of felt, suggests both a blanket, and a potential destination within the larger scale of the cascading maps. The sculpture holds these micro and macro scale juxtapositions in suspension—in between departure and arrival.
Shown at Opalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY. in the international exhibition “To Be Named” curated by Krista Caballero, 2023.
