The works from this exhibition consider nature as an aggregate of ever changing information. Based in the geological, biological, and historical richness of western North Carolina the representative pieces here reflect on the novelty of moments in the backcountry ,while the abstract works explore "organization" through grid, pile, cloud, and the messiness of categorization.  

 

Root balls erode as sites of past rebellion,  having lifted stones to the sky in a last act of defiance against the gravity that pulls them back to the ground.  The rocks are gathered in their custom grown net and levered back uphill in a small victory against erosion, natures most voracious sculptor; water, its most aggressive tool.   {Hurricane Helene's catastrophic impact on the area adds layers of meaning here.  My initial approach was in admiration of these new scenarios; mountains in miniature; the unknowing reorganization of residual chaos.  Now, they are emblematic of a greater disaster locally and globally.}

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The conveyor of this water, the endless ephemeral bucket that carries it back uphill to carve again, floats effortlessly despite its heft. Ever think about how much a cloud weighs?  Our new conception of "cloud" as information makes me think about our own internalized organization of thought and experience as a 3(4?) dimensional Venn diagram; revealing some limitations of "the flat." It might not weigh much but that's a lot to be carrying around in your head. 

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"Bins" looks to this labor of organization, slowly replicating the rules set forth.  Step by step the small variations become visible.  The visual trickery seems an apt analogy for the distortion in processing our own experience with the world.

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Perhaps my favorite method of organization, the pile, speaks doubly in Ancient Stack.

Dirt piled up, layered for ages and pressed into stone only to be cut by silly mammal into a funny shape.  

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