2024.
Phantom Limb
The scientist Lauren Oakes writes that a forest is ‘a stream of matter and energy’, a fitting description for a city as well. ‘Phantom Limb’ presses pause on this stream for a moment, arresting the flow of growth and decay long enough for us to bear witness. Rising from the ground as a grid of wooden dowels, the sculpture creates a scaffolding on which branches float. The branches, in turn, provide the cross supports necessary to strengthen the orthogonal structure of the grid. ‘Phantom Limb’ flickers between movement and suspension, hewn and raw wood, the grid and organic forms; creating a tension that energizes the sculpture.
