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My father was a home builder.
So was my uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfather. My brothers and cousins carry on the tradition today.
Creating a house is more than a structure...a home gives us a sense of security and safety, comfort and joy.
A home is also a metaphor for our ability to be grounded and at 'home' within our bodies and minds.
After remodeling my own house, I was struck with the many layers of feelings and emotions tied up in a home.
These feelings inspired Constructing Deconstruction, an installation composed of 200 music box sculptures.
To experience the piece, people enter the house and choose any of the bricks resting on steel and magnet plates, suspended from cables between 2x4’s.
The steel and bronze bricks are music boxes, each telling the story of experiences that makes a house a home, instead of just a building.
The house installation has 4 windows. While the music boxes face inward for most of the house, they face outward within the windows.
When we are truly at home (physically or metaphorically), our experiences feel internal and authentic.
Once we step outside of our house (or lose our grounding and step out of our bodies) external forces have more control.
Each music box is made of a fabricated steel cube with a bronze, bird themed key.
Turn the key, and when you open the box, music plays and the interior details tell more of the story.
As I said, each box tells a story. But every story can be perceived in multiple ways, often in opposites. So for each bronze bird, there are 2 box designs.
Title: Reject Song: “What the World Needs Now”
Title: Accept. Song: “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”
Take this example of Accept and Reject…
These boxes consider our innate need for self acceptance - the parts of ourselves we struggle to accept but often make us most unique and interesting.
Accept and Reject reflect on how confidence often comes easiest when we reject the influence of outsiders and trust our inner voice.
Together, all the small moments and experiences combine to make us who we are and provide shelter from the unknowns.
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I am grateful for YOU! I feel lucky every day I get to spend in the studio, experimenting with materials, exploring new ideas, and creating art. But if it weren't for you, this work would just while away the time stuck in boxes on shelves. Share your gratitude and enter to win the perfect pearl earrings.
