Foreseeable Future
Foreseeable Future continues my ongoing investigation of the fence motif, asking how a structure built to divide and contain is interrupted and transformed by time and nature. A mirrored acrylic fence hangs suspended in a sunlit space, casting reflections and refracted light that shift as the sun moves through the day. At certain moments, sunlight strikes the mirrors, and the fence seems electrified, its form extending infinitely through light. Up close, its melted, bent, and reformed edges reveal a delicate, lace-like quality.
Two elements interact with the fence. Tree branches stand upright, barely touching the ground yet reaching outward in every direction, like performers caught mid-gesture. Across the floor, a sundial unfolds through large cyanotype prints made from sun exposures over four months at different times of day. Chain-link fence, trellis-like structures, branches, and morning glories each leave their impressions on the paper. As the day passes, shadows stretch across the prints, layering new patterns over the old.
Each element holds a different measure of nature’s time: the slow growth of a tree, the opening and closing of a flower, the daily passage of the sun. Together, they trace the rhythms and evolving systems that shape our circadian cycles, our sense of day and season, and the tension between constructed time and the natural world. The fence promises permanence, but the sun, vines, and branches insist otherwise. The future remains uncertain; forces we can only partially witness shape it, and so do those whose perspectives may never align.