ARRIVAL

This concept invites an exploration to feel the series of emotions involved with Arrival. People walk through an open space, weaving around suspended trees, recovered from the depths of fresh water. The energy felt by the collective mass of drowned trees encompasses one’s sensory intellect; touch, smells and sight. People may wander, pause, retract, surrender, panic, retreat, move with confidence or tempestuous curiosity. This exploration welcomes the emotional state and evolution that is most available to you. As the suspended trees become sparse, you find yourself pausing under a solo suspended mass, welcoming the space of air and light around you.

Have you arrived?

Experience

Tucked into an inlet, a structure supported by the land anchored rock supports the weight of several suspended drowned logs. The installation is not scene from main avenues of transportation. You could walk during the low water level months and use a floating device in the high water level months. An exploration of our internal realities is explored through the experience of moving to, with, from and within the gravity defiant forest. The ever-evolving and changing elements of natural light, temperature, wind, smell, and fauna create a timeless, unique experiences for folks to come back too again and again.

Place

At the top of the largest fresh water lake, west of the Mississippi lives a bay where the water rises and falls against glacial bedrock. With the seasonal change of snow melt and rainfall, the water level fills the basin and at times, leaves the bedrock bare.

Here lies a place that is never static, yet always sturdy.

Collaboration

For this specific location, collaborative efforts, approval and work will need to be completed with the following communities and organizations: Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, North Shore land owners, Somer’s Community Residence, Somers Lumber Company owners, Devos Family, Northwest Montana Historical Society, Flathead County and City of Kalispell.

TRANSFORMATION

This concept is fully inspired by the annual transformation of the Fall Webworm Moth. Themes of undoing, becoming, mystery, grotesque and allure flutter throughout the installation.

The process of deep authentic transformation is not for the faint of heart. We usually begin in a place of deep desire and perhaps desperation. We plan, we work, we fail, we panic, meltdown, and consistently try. Before we know it, we have become, what other’s perceive to be an effortless success.

We royally wear our confidence caped around our shoulders, our eyes met with dynamism, and our hearts filled with knowing. We flutter around, aimlessly, encouraging and nourishing the hearts of those who are trying. This is how we sustain a legacy of powerful transformation.

Experience

This installation is experienced as an observer and as a participant. From the outside of a storefront, one will take notice to large drapery, subtly moving with movements like clothing, sun-drying on the line. Upon approaching the glass, looking inward to the installation, the textures of the fabric and highlights of the light dappling on the flowing curves come into play. Mirrors above and below the installation provide flickering light and the illusion of robust rolling movements of fabric from the wind, all in a contained space. The observer becomes a participant once they enter the store to engage with the installation from the other side. Here, one becomes the participant as you move into the larger than life webs of fabric, taking notice to the placements of grotesque texture within the gloriously robust movements of fabric. Mysterious textures, hidden detail and the remnants of undoing, tranforms the objectivity of what was once thought as an effortless form of beauty

Place

In the vein of exploiting capitalism and our superficial compulsions to shop and renew and be another, the most relevant location for this installation is a large store front in an epicenter of shopping.

Collaboration

We are working with the masses of discarded material in the fashion industry. Connections with the Portland Apparel Lab have allowed us to source materials that are already in excess.