Flippity, Flappity

I have long been fascinated by the ineffable quality of kites and flags. Not included in the aforementioned article (which I wrote in my youth while living in a tent in the mountains outside Telluride, Colorado) were the soft sculptures which were included as part of that particular outdoor installation. At that time, I made a series of canary yellow fabric cloth forms that were about 40 feet long that ran at about 10 feet in the air through the woods. I loved them and I think about them often because they were a subtle use of material in a non-invasive way that could poetically respond to the location in which they were placed. While I have not done this with these new flag forms I’ve made for this show, they are still a response to the site in that they react to wind and rain and hang in an abandoned structure that also called to me when I first came out to look around. The forms harken to the stacked metal, wood and stone forms that are placed around the property. Perhaps they are the next stage of life for these sculptures, or they are a more fleeting version of their weightier siblings.

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