Sunrises the Pool Engulfed

2017

Steel, window screen, thread.

After several years of drifting around the country to various artist residencies and carrying most all my possessions in my truck, I made a list of similes for driving different directions around America, and stitched them into a hanging lake:

Driving east across the prairie of Kansas feels like opening my mouth and walking slowly into a lake.  

Driving west through the heart of Texas into New Mexico feels like sinking naked into a mound of soft dirt.

Driving on the New Jersey turnpike feels like being immersed in a swimming pool filled with aquarium props.  

Metaphorical devices in language are often used to describe and communicate phenomena which are difficult to say directly.  They can be beautiful and powerful tools of communication, connecting people to each other and to memory using descriptions of sensory experience. 

Words dissolve into abstract threads, and that abstraction forms a cloak around a center void.