Sift . . . Shift

sift Shift, 30' x 30', University Art Gallery, Chico, CA 30' x 30', 2011

Sift . . . Shift is a mult-media installation, incorporating sound, video and sculpture, displayed in the University Art Gallery, Taylor Hall, at California State University, Chico.  The viewer enters the space on a large deck, which leads to a false partition shingled with myriads of overlapping pillows sheathed in white slips.  Gentle sounds of night-time crickets fill the space.   There are six individual sculptural elements, Red Rover, Listening Table, Gate Keeper, Scarf Dancers, Last Dance, and Night Sounds. Please click these page links to view detail photographs.

"Last Dance"

The divided room functions as metaphor for time and how through Einstein’s predicted wormholes two separate moments in time, can be simultaneous.

A video of ocean waves and shorebirds is projected across the sculpture “Last Dance” and onto the opposite wall enveloped in mylar.

This causes a shadow of the sculpture to interact with the waves, and visitors can see their shadows in the projected water.