CLOUDLINE_KK Projects_New Orleans_An Installation with Liz Swanson McKay

CLOUDLINE is a full-scale installation created in response to the on-going impact of the flood on residents’ personal lives.  The project explores the meaning of loss, the significance of objects, and the corresponding relationship between chaos and stagnation.

Made by a series of 3800 weighted filament lines suspending over 8,000 aggregated points, the project replicates a specific debris field documented within a living room of the artist childhood home.   The debris field contains the exact forms of household furniture, such as chairs, end tables, a sofa, and a piano, yet one’s reading of the objects remains abstract due to its construction.  Instead, one is left only with a vague sense familiarity based on scale and proximities to the human body.

The installation was designed and detailed specifically for Kirsha Kaechele Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana, an exhibition space that doubles as the gallery owner’s home.  Ms. Kaechele lived in the space prior to Hurricane Katrina and subsequently lost all of her possessions.  At the time of the exhibition, only a bed and single, rooted tree occupied the space.

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