The Kitchen of the Future ...

... will be filled with mobiles.

My installation for the Arcades Project is done, and I'm calling it A Visibility of Thought, after a line from Wallace Stevens' An Ordinary Evening in New Haven. Come see this "reading room" vignette in person on May 6, during Gallery Night (5-9 PM) in the old Night & Day building on the Commons.

The large mobile on the left is 7 feet wide and 4 feet high, made of paper and wire. It hangs above a Zen garden of rocks and paper sculptures like the ones in the mobile itself.



Inscribed on the mobile is a poem about words and winter:

Solstice Snowfall

With a fateful arc
the poles of our spherical mound
glide once again up
to an inflection point,
where they pause, mid-turn,
to regain sight of
the verdant star at the distant end.

At this held-breath moment of freefall,
fleeting ands ifs and buts
shed their aspirant corners and
consonant edges.
And as their sound swings back
around, we find they abound in the
abstract air, when they settle as
crystalline sediments on the
whispering ground.

My goal in developing this piece was to form an organic, natural relationship between art and text, and to marry the act of reading with an intuitive visual comprehension. Along the way, I became attuned to the physicality of language and the way words are first felt in the body before they are transmitted into the world.