Heaven, Hell, and Here
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire,wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here (Detail)
2013, 11' x 42' x 18", ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, string, wire, wood, and cast shadows
Heaven, Hell, and Here
Heaven, Hell, and Here is an imagined construct about place and the mind. This site-responsive installation is part on an ongoing series of mental maps, conflating the structure of cities with the structure of the mind.
As an artist interested in imagined place, I find heaven and hell the ultimate challenge. Both heaven and hell are central in literature, religion, and art. My heaven and hell are secular contemporary places, metaphoric networks with references to prior artistic visions and with many possible readings. City structures, both ruined and utopian, underlie the work. Here in the installation acts as a counterpoint to heaven and hell.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost