Swallow City: ta prohm trees

Swallow City, a solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, included twenty-seven sculptures in two, site-inspired installations, 2015. Read Huffington Post review, by Gail Vida Hamburg. View exhibition brochure essay by Samantha Reynolds.

Humored by the responsiveness of voluptuous forms to the obstacles that violate them, I anthropomorphize my subjects to evoke a feeling of kinetic recognition. For example, a tree oozes over an iron fence like a corpulent belly overflows a tight belt. In nature, soft swallows hard. Like a cartoonist, I depict manifestations of force action and reaction. As if complicit, objects become verbs: skin recoils, flesh droops, vines choke and fungi cling; tree bark scars leaving crusty scabs, orifices pucker and engulf. Walking through the forest, my world is incarnate.