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I want to be alive with you, 2009
I want to be alive with you, 2009
I want to be alive with you, 2009
Installation view, Division Gallery, 2010
HERE WITH you, 2010
HERE WITH you, detail
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![images 1-3: I Want to be Alive with You, [cast bronze, height 4’Äù, width 2-3’Äù, depth 3-4’Äù], 2009
images 4-6: HERE WITH you, [cast bronze, height 9’Äù], 2010
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I Want to be Alive with You, 2009 time lapse video
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Since 2007 I have been working with bronze casting. I was initially interested in exploring the characteristics that are so unique to this material: ductility, conduction of heat and electricity, density, weight and vulnerability to oxidation. However, it was the density and permanence of the material that made working with it quite awkward initially. Ideas of duration went on to inform the works above.
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I want to be alive with you, 2009
For the work, 4 inch high extruded letters cast in bronze are installed on the floor in the window bay of a 7th floor gallery space in Downtown Chicago.¬ÝModest in scale, the bronze letters accord a triangulation with the viewer - a direct address in which the¬ÝI and the¬Ýyou¬Ýare dimensional sites transformed by whomever is reading them. The sun is also a participant in the work when the weather permits.¬ÝEach day from roughly 230 pm to 545 pm, the sun comes through the window and creates a trapezoid of light that moves along the floor and eventually envelopes the sculpture.¬ÝThe light will cause the letters to cast long diagonal shadows such that they mimic the buildings of the city-scape seen through the glass. The shadows locate the words beyond material - in direct conversation with time. Each day when the sun sets behind the office buildings, the sculpture returns to its original scale, becoming once more a sentence only legible from above.¬Ý
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HERE WITH you, 2010
Cast in 9 inch tall extruded letters, the letters project the bodily presence of their maker: the traces of contact trapped in the surface of the bronze reveal the vulnerability of the hand that has offered them. The sentence is simple - a formal yielding of content that teases and perhaps contradicts the declarative nature of its own materiality.](Bronze_files/shapeimage_1.png)
