Uplift
Welded steel, plexiglass mirror, sand, LED lights, and beach landscape
Image of artist installing the work
Public Art/Earth Work Installation for Desert Daze Music Festival, Lake Perris, CA
Reflecting on the industrialization and development cutting through the monumental California mountains, Uplift contrasts a steel trellis like armature, representing the skeleton of an imaginary infrastructure, with a mound of sand that the structure pushes against like a bulldozer cutting through the Earth. Through this contrast, the work highlights the push and pull of the natural environment and man-made structures. A plexiglass mirror separating the steel armature from the sand mound references Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, questioning time and space and underscoring the impossibility of claiming or owning nature which is in constant flux.
Photo credit: Gabriel Marcus
2018