Portfolio > Takings, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY 2012

Takings is a new site-specific and interactive installation sited at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY that critiques the use of eminent domain while promoting an emergent system.
Takings
ceramic, wood, wire rope, found ladder, cable ties, collage, oval threaded connectors, wire nut connectors
8 x 21 x 31’
2012

As the viewer enters the main space of the gallery they see a large wooden cube. This cube is both the historic walled city that provided safety for its citizens and the contemporary construction site that keeps cities in constant flux. The viewer is invited to climb the ladder for an aerial view of the suspended ceramic modulars hung inside the cube. These modulars serve as a metaphor of the emergent system that self-organizes communities and a bridge that connects the individual to the community.