SKY INSIDE | FRONT OF HOUSE GALLERY (OFF-SITE)
The spare, deteriorating structure on Sauvie Island drew me in. Part of my fascination lies in the tension between shelter and exposure that it embodies. It’s history as a farming shed yielded to other potent, present functions—a vessel, a transmission station, a lament for what is lost. In the end, the structure drove the form, color and placement of ceramic sculptures, at once fixed and changing as the sky above. This project gave me the opportunity to sink into the site’s evocative logic more deeply—I wrote poetry, considered deep space observatories, learned about near and far field theory. From this exploration emerged themes of reclamation, communication, and longing, as well as a keen awareness of environmental change. Are we receptive to the pulsing current of information above us? Did you look at the sky today? What did you see?