Victoria May
Materials Flow Management
2013
found and treated fabrics, blankets, repurposed clothing and accessories, tire innertube
75" x 65" x 10”
This piece was inspired by a road trip to the Jentel residency in Wyoming. Taking in the geology as well as the markers of industry seen in the landscape on the drive there, I wanted to blend the two, drawing a connection between raw resources and all the technological innovations that have ultimately derived from materials extracted from the earth. The use of soft sculpture and organic treatments subverts the authority of institutional systems and exposes a softness, even frailty, in the calculated infrastructures that our society has come to depend on.
I chose this piece as it seems like a good reminder of just how intertwined we are with our surroundings and how vulnerable we are to the powers and processes that existed before us and that are greater than us, in spite of all our alleged sophistication.