Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes, 2022
Texas Artists: Women In Abstraction
The art museum of South Texas, CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
February 4 - May 8, 2022
Media: PEX water pipe, artificial turf, tarpaulin, steel, hardware, adhesive, thread, and carpet pad
Slinky sculpture dimensions: 20” x 68” x 68” and 15” x 50” x 50”
Artificial turf mosaic rugs: 2” x 144” x 120” and 2” x 120” x 96”
It all started While watching weather warnings…
These unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm were inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.
Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm.
The surrounding artificial turf mosaics are based on flood levels in Houston during the 2017 Hurricane Harvey.
