Conversations with the Sky

Other Shots

This is some work I made at an artist residency in Sonoma.

The residency was soon after the fires and much of Sonoma had burned down. Yet I was on this (of the surface) bucolic residency in a place that was still pure.  The firepit was already there - but we were told we couldn’t use it.  That’s how the idea originally came up to put a mirror in it.

I’ve been thinking about how it fits into the context of my other work…. I.E. Compared to other work, this work is more eye candy.  It’s more formalist than conceptual. 

But I’m figuring out how to talk about it, name it, contextualize it.

Interaction:  People seemed to want to gather around the firepit - I was told it felt meditational, an opportunity to reflect.

Figuring out: does this work for the type of work it is / formalist.

Possible titles for pieces:

Fire pit —

All is Not Lost 

We don’t live here anymore

A fire for everyone

A fire for everyone / a fire for no one

Come gather around the fire

Mirror under tree —

Protect me from you

Pull me through the earth

Something about roots

Wheelbarrow —

Conversations with the sky

The sky will fall eventually