108 x 96 x 120 inches | acid-cut stainless steel, crystals, wood, watercolor on cut paper, mylar tape, 4-channel audio/video projection | 2014 | Prep School: Prepper & Survivalist Ideologies and Utopian/Dystopian Vision | Torrance Museum of Art | Torrance, CA
Post Sparkle Apocalypse is a concise, crystalline vision — a phantasmagorical landscape borne from the musings of a reincarnated, post-disaster terrain.
The work is laser-cut stainless steel, but the graphical elements come from spontaneous cut-paper drawings I produced in the studio during a months-long practice of incessantly listening to post-apocalyptic audiobooks while working. These intense aural narratives propelled the work into a specifically-themed phase: a series based on rebirth after total destruction — the final stage of a regenerated post-apocalyptic ecosystem.
The realm gets brought about through overlapping projected reflections on the adjacent wall. The space is composed of symmetrically hanging elements of bejeweled polished stainless steel with four separate audio/video projections of colorized mouths narrating the same overlapping passages from Robert R. McCammon’s 1987 novel Swan Song.