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Fault Trace
Sited at Beacon Room Project Space at BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2018
salvaged roofing slate, the artist’s hair
approx. 79 x 52 x 4”
My exhibition in the Beacon Room associated the language, formal characteristics, and materiality of geology with traces of architecture and my body through sculpture and works on the walls. In geological terms, a “fault trace” is the place where a fault, or fracture, in the rock strata can be seen or mapped on the earth’s surface. The work on exhibit explored the fault as a space of relational possibility between self and other, where radically different temporalities intersect, structure cleaves, and material identities may be reconfigured.