ARTIST STATEMENT

In Terrain, I have made a multi-media installation that fully reflects its surrounding landscape, creating new visions of its parts, like a prism reflects light. I have repurposed the essential materials that make up its topographical context: grass, concrete and light. An expression of the relationship between terrestrial space and daily life emerges from these elements. In this way it works to evoke the nature of a new housing development, a construction that bridges the gap between people and the terrain on which they live.

Terrain consists of four concrete tubes covered in grass turf, leading into a central circle with floor and walls of grass. This arrangement suggests movement inward, into the home and into the self. The plant life laid over suggests that home and life are grounded in the earth, la tierra.

I project a video set to music, on a cubical structure overtop the central space. It is like a ceiling and at the same time like the sky, halfway between home and nature. In the film a young girl walks through one of the concrete tunnels, toward the opening and into the larger space. She is the image of transformation, the passion of moving forward, full of questions about life. As she emerges into the lit space, the light becomes the internal destination, a home without closure, alive to infinite possibilities.

Advanced materials, the importance of light, the natural context, and the unlimited possibilities of space, Terrain evokes these themes for each viewer to interpret individually, as they make decisions about a place in which to conduct their lives.