SELECTED WORK

fourteenth way

2007         12’h x 9’w x 9’d

material: paper, thread, metal, wood
site: deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
commissioned for “Trainscapes: Installation Art for Model Railroads”
photographs by Clements/ Howcroft

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

             stanza 1, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", Wallace Stevens

Fourteenth Way unites the worlds of poetry and sculpture.

2300 threads are suspended in space. Over 3000 paper letters flutter in the ambient air currents. Text is snowing. A blackbird hovers, casting a shadow (void) on the implied mountainscape below. The bottommost elements aggregate into passages from Stevens’ classic poem.