LANDSCAPE
Our body is our home. The Earth is our home. The Earth is our body.
Most of these sculptures depict the continuity between what we often perceive as inside and outside of our bodies. The pyramids sometimes interspersed with thick black lines (“Watershed” and “Development” #1 and #2) are a schematic I invented to suggest suburbia as seen from an airplane. “Garden of Destruction” depicts cultivation and celebration of a garden that is overgrowing the house within it.
“Compassion 4 U” renders a field of Phragmites australis, an invasive wetland grass that has grown to large monocultural fields in the New York metropolitan area. These fields catch fire easily when dry in the fall. In this scene, the “fire” might be Enlightened Mind emanating from (leafy) Green Tara represented within the fire halo.
