Description

Construction of a Pair, 2000

Construction of a Pair was made in a converted warehouse space that allowed me to build “model” smokestacks that referenced their normally monumental scale. The smokestacks work together to embody my ideas about desire, frustration and oblivion. The smaller smokestack responds to the larger's presence.  It wants to be what the larger one is, but it is destroying and humiliating itself in the process. It exposes its animal self in an effort to gain the other's acknowledgment. Or, perhaps, the intrinsic power of the larger one is corroding the skin of the smaller one.  The larger smokestack also has an animal nature, but it is transitional, like an abandoned bird's nest.  It is focused on its imminent disintegration, with no concern for the one beside it, regardless of how hard the neighbor tries to coax it back into the present.