These works were installed in a threshing aisle of a barn: a narrow long passage where seed was once separated from chafe by a siphoned wind. In the compressed space, I installed two works on the parallel facing walls that address our inheritance of violence.
Pages torn from a discarded copy I found of Night by Elie Wiesel wrap the wall mounted strands of rusted barbed wire I had removed from the trees and old fence lines where I live. The massive 'vulnus' I carved into the timbers of The Lading were cutoffs from the home I once built. The making of both were difficult powerful rituals.
These works were included in my 2023 solo exhibition Alter Altar: 20 Years. Please see the monograph VISUAL POEMS for more information.
