Enriched, Bleached, and Presifted

flour, metal, cement

This site-specific installation was a part of the Birdsell Project’s summer 2015 residency. Over the summer, I created landscapes out of flour within 4 silos in the basement of an old lumber mill.

While making these sculptures, I was thinking a lot about landscapes as imprinted by structures; traces of movement by humans, animals, weather, etc; and memory, the ways we look at, interpret, and feel the landscapes around us. These acts of mark-making reflect modes of production and infrastructures ingrained within our cultures.

Working within this site, which its is imbued with its own industrial and western expansion narratives, I thought about my own impressions of the landscape of the American west and the urban grid that sits upon it.

To compliment the sculptures within the silos, I made additional sculptures out of concrete bags and concrete beams found in the basement space I was working in.

2015