MAYBE

installation of chemistry glassware, water, wire, string, papier-mâché, found objects, paint, plants, paper lanterns, audio
variable dimensions
2024-25

The World I Live In

I have refused to live
locked in the orderly house of
     reasons and proofs.
The world I live in and believe in
is wider than that. And anyway,
     what’s wrong with Maybe?

You wouldn’t believe what once or
twice I have seen. I’ll just
     tell you this:
only if there are angels in your head will you
     ever, possibly, see one.

+ Mary Oliver

This is my most recent adventure, an exotic ecosystem, a gathering of foundlings, of hybrid creatures who borrow indiscriminately from the languages of poetry and science. They indulge my obsession with making something from nothing, my love affair with recycled newspaper, twigs, and wire… They are my antidote to the news, the embodiment of enduring hopefulness, an opportunity ‘maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.’ (Mary Oliver). When we go to sleep, I imagine that they flower and sing, and drip and dance the night away. They are having a party to which you are invited.