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Harmonious Chemistry
Cast glass, water, sand, light, 2021
Harmonious Chemistry
Cast glass, water, sand, light, 2021
Cast glass, water, sand, light, 2021
The desert is a place that has geographically and historically been connected to the origins of life—a place of emergence from which the world once arose.
The archetypal and archaic elements of the landscape naturally catalyze a feeling of a return to source. In this way, the desert is a region of renewal and a space between two worlds: the visible and the invisible, the material and the spiritual, the human and the non-human.
Harmonious Chemistry is a melting sundial that tells the elemental story of life and death, encapsulating both the human experience and the biorhythms of nature, recognizing them as one interconnected body.
Thirteen hand-sculpted cast glass gnomons (the part of a sundial that casts the shadow) were individually encased in water, frozen, and extended into an ice sculpture sundial left to melt in the dunes of the Mojave Desert in the summer of 2021. Each performance elementally traced the path of the sun through the measurement of water and shadow. Upon completion of the melting process, thirteen clear ghost-like glass bodies were revealed.
This is a living inquiry into our relationship with nature, and considers the possibilities and roles of eco-psychology and imagination in relation to our cultural response to climate change.