- a site-specific installation completed June 2007 in a 15 acre field at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia
The piece consisted of 9 wooden towers constructed entirely of scavenged scrap wooden pallets. The poles for the towers were dead saplings taken from the nearby woods at VCCA. The nine towers were arranged elliptically in the hay field.
The tower, as a metaphor, represents an “axis mundi” -- a form in the landscape which indicates a physical point of location. They are embedded in the earth and reach into the sky. They are human-like and they also imply habitation and function but are they always empty. They are stand-ins for our own longing.
