Blue is the question (2025)
Tarp, pine
The color blue compels us to ask. It is the color of the sky (what is up there?) and the color of the ocean (what is down there?). It rarely occurs in this petroleum-bright hue in nature. A blue tarp demands to be remembered, picked out of the browns and greens of the world, a paradox to its ubiquity. They are are cheap and temporary and are often used in makeshift structures. Tarps are materials of transience despite their eternal petroleum desires. The materials that will be around us and in us forever are the ones we value least, and through them we seek an immortality we never asked.
Into the flat tarp is cut an abstracted flowing net. Nets and tarps are ways of holding, containing, and protecting: intermediaries between one thing and another. Boundary; a promise of another side. To cut through; to see the other side. A blue reflection of things hidden and caught, seen and unseen, permanent and transient.