windflowers

Windflowers is an anti-monumental gateway to Richmond. Using processes derived from Richmond’s industrial shipbuilding trades and sympathetic materials to the region, 26 painted fragments are suspended by 13 flexible steel armatures. These steel armatures are individually calibrated to bend lightly in the wind – an effect that destabilizes a clear reading of the artworks, and by extension, notions of boundary. The goals of this are manifold: on one hand, establishing a soft and pliable threshold between ecosystems, geographical locations, histories and people. On the other hand, suggesting a clear hierarchy of nature over the camouflaged processes of human action.