Black Hole

Part of Piece, "Black hole"

Bach Chaconne

Black hole

Wood, Iron paint, Resin, Fabric, and Two Videos

72"x65"x75" (WxHxD)

January 2013

I am interested in architectural forms and I get inspiration from constructions, buildings in New York City. For this piece, I wanted to create a feeling that viewers are walking into the space and I wanted to build an intangible ground from my imagination and make it visible to viewers. I made a crystal shape, architectural in size, of repeated frames and placed them in a space. The way I installed the frames, looked like a giant black hole. It created an illusion of being in a crystal as you walked into the piece.

Inside the large negative shape of crystal, there is a smaller crystal pyramid object on which one video is projected. The video shows a performer playing a violin. She is playing classical music, “Bach Chaconne”. The music suggests to me everything goes back to dust. There were two videos projected inside of the structure. The second video is projecting at eye level and is of shadows moving. In the video, the shadows are moving into and onto the ground. The movement of the shadows is visually poetic. 

The whole body of work creates the feeling of being absorbed into its content. The work suggests that as viewers are physical beings, our physical bodies will go into the ground.