Land Lenses, 2019, glass, steel, concrete. Installed at Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland CA
Inspired by Nancy Holt’s 1972 site-specific art installation, Missoula Ranch Locators, these land lenses were designed with the intention of calling viewers outside of the gallery space and into nature. Working collaboratively with an existing site that had been negelected and long-forgotten, the artist hand-built fixtures that could attach to spikes of rebar and would achieve a focusing effect on the surrounding landscape. Following in Holt’s philosophy that nature itself was too vast to experience in a glance, these lenses direct the participators’ attention to morsels of the grandeur.
Inspired by Nancy Holt’s 1972 site-specific art installation, Missoula Ranch Locators, these land lenses were designed with the intention of calling viewers outside of the gallery space and into nature. Working collaboratively with an existing site that had been negelected and long-forgotten, the artist hand-built fixtures that could attach to spikes of rebar and would achieve a focusing effect on the surrounding landscape. Following in Holt’s philosophy that nature itself was too vast to experience in a glance, these lenses direct the participators’ attention to morsels of the grandeur.
