Dream Additions
Dream Additions, at the Riverside Art Center Sculpture Garden.
The installation reassembles a batting cage, weaving together ideas about public parks, sports, and play as spaces for friendship and community. The work explores meanings that go beyond gentrification and property ownership, touching on what a more connected, fulfilling life could look like in times of division and uncertainty.
A chain-link fence is an object devoid of color, scaled down to simple shapes and lines, and abstracted by repeated patterns. Typically, chain-link is a gritty, sobering architectural object that surrounds and divides private property and vacant lots. This object becomes especially charged when taken out of context. The chain link’s geometric pattern creates a frame through which to observe the landscape, speculate, and selectively view what lies beyond.
Within the steel chain-link framework, colors overlap and interact, forming fields of color that suggest the space where two things merge and create something new. The surface is layered with geometric patterns and light-reflecting colored acrylic, subtly shifting the viewer's perspective as they walk through and around the piece.