Rockshop, 2020
Marquetry hybrid
68 x 51 in
172.7 x 129.5 cm
172.7 x 129.5 cm
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Geodes are fascinating as the inside is unexpectedly hued and luminescent given its rocky gray exterior, but when multitudes of these gray rocks make up a landscape they achieve another...
Geodes are fascinating as the inside is unexpectedly hued and luminescent given its rocky gray exterior, but when multitudes of these gray rocks make up a landscape they achieve another sort of sublimity. This is a metaphor for contemplating the multipart whole versus the individual. Rockshop is also a reflection on employing the striking characteristics of natural materials within artworks as an aesthetic tool.
The window connects the natural world of the landscape with the interior of a commercial space. Pieces of the landscape are extracted, polished and displayed like artworks. They become rarified objects to take away as physical reminders of an encounter with nature via a tourist’s day hike. Modernism contended with the idea of painting as a window many decades ago. The notion of a two-dimensional rectangle as a window onto worlds is complicated here by a flatness of the space reminiscent of postcards that have popularized the practice of nature tourism.
--Alison Elizabeth Taylor
The window connects the natural world of the landscape with the interior of a commercial space. Pieces of the landscape are extracted, polished and displayed like artworks. They become rarified objects to take away as physical reminders of an encounter with nature via a tourist’s day hike. Modernism contended with the idea of painting as a window many decades ago. The notion of a two-dimensional rectangle as a window onto worlds is complicated here by a flatness of the space reminiscent of postcards that have popularized the practice of nature tourism.
--Alison Elizabeth Taylor