What models do we have in our lives where communication becomes an act of freedom and liberation while also joining us to the universal? How can we recreate these moments of simultaneous autonomy and connectedness?

Perch proposes an alternative space between two people, one that explores distance-- not of alienation and detachment but of dynamic and engaged dialogue.

By actively participating with this sculpture, a viewer's association and expectation to his or her surroundings shifts scale and becomes reconfigured. Perch investigates this relation between physical orientation and how it impacts the psychological perception and reception of others.

The format of this mobile structure is based on the way someone might sit on a roof-- with his or her knees up a bit. There is also enough space for someone to crawl under- body scale, but for a sitting or huddled body, a compressed body, a stationary body, a body in the mode of consideration, and introspection. There is room to withhold, and room to share.

How can we become active participants in raising our own consciousness? Where are the windows to owning responsibility for oneself through voice as well as through listening? Where is the framework to promote it, the foundation to support it, and the roof to defend it?

Perch is the first work in a two-part project exploring the nature of taking a stand while taking a seat; the deliberate and committed choice of mobilizing aggressive political and social change.

Perch
2005
152.4 (length) x 76.2 (width) x 63.5 (height)
wood, roofing shingles, paint, hinges

  Exhibition at Ceres Gallery