Phase Transition - 2019

The floor pieces of this installation are composed of curving steel bases that support clusters of paper-coated woven wire spheres. The wall pieces consist of sphere clusters of varying sizes that seem to grow directly on, or out of, the room itself. The spheres clump together as in the midst of their own process of mitosis with smaller ones appearing to grow out of the larger central spheres. A delicate, dark stretched paper skin covers their linear forms, binding them together and unifying their multiple cells in to one cohesive organism. Their cellular expansion speaks of new life and growth, but this promise of vivacity is undermined by decay implied the visible rust that stains parts of the paper skin. The variegated dark gray of the paper also adds a sinister feeling to the process of growth, calling into question the nature and intention of their multiplication.