72 x 144 inches | cut steel with painted hidden backside | 2024 | Permanent Site-Specific Commission | Great Plains Health | North Platte, Nebraska
Sandhill Sunset extends my long-running practice of cut silhouette compositions into a regionally rooted study of the North Platte landscape, where the migration of Sandhill Cranes through the Platte River valley shapes the seasonal rhythm of the region. The valley is one of the great migratory stopovers on the North American continent — every spring, hundreds of thousands of Sandhill Cranes converge on the river to rest before continuing north.
The composition draws from that seasonal rhythm: cut silhouettes of cranes and native grasses arranged across the wall like a moment lifted from the migration itself. Cut from steel, the work continues the colorized cast-shadow technique developed across the wall-hung Reflector Specter series — the painted hidden back bouncing a warm sunset glow through the silhouette and onto the surrounding wall.
Installed permanently at the entryway of Great Plains Health, North Platte, Nebraska.