""I am responding to the expansive swatches of our landscape, once lush and green, that have turned into huge cemeteries of blackened spires," she continued. "They stand like upright skeletal remains of the woods with countless fatalities that include old growth wonders. It's devastating and heart-wrenching to see, but also hauntingly beautiful perhaps because the emptiness forces a deeper reflection.""
""The Hanging in the Balance subtitle speaks to that precarious moment before complete disaster ... being at the edge ... the tipping point ... an ecosystem that is suffering by our hands and it's up to us to not ignore the skeletons around us. It is a metaphor for the uprooted upside-down trees that hang above the sight line like ghosts of the forest hovering over us, out of sight, out of mind.""
An immersive installation occupies a 5,000-square-foot industrial space and opens through a doorway onto a panorama of dim light, shadow, fog, and projected fire imagery. The layout uses tableau, candles on stumps, hanging bundles of desiccated plants, scales, and sculpture to evoke a graveyard and memento mori. Images of burned trees and upright skeletal spires emphasize landscapes transformed into cemeteries of blackened growth. The work frames ecological devastation as a precarious tipping point and a moral summons to recognize and respond to environmental destruction before complete disaster occurs.
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