Subsidence / Mixed media / 68 x 118 x 48 inches / 2011
Depicted here at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the work was installed in the ceiling of the fourth floor for display under glass on the fifth floor. The last image in this series shows the underside of the work, as seen from the fourth floor.
The Distillation series, my largest series of small-scale sculptures, deals primarily with the small psychological dramas that unfold within home. The title arose while thinking about the moments in a person’s past that define who they are today; I imagined being able to distill a life down to a core experience that rippled through to the present. How would that experience be remembered? Would it be clear, or distorted and dreamlike? In childhood, when many of formative these experiences occur, the home often serves as the stage upon which these dramas are enacted, and in these works the homes seem to take on the distress of their inhabitants, while the figures carry on with their daily lives, oblivious to their surroundings.
