Morph Spell (courtyard)
Morph Spell (courtyard)
Strips of vinyl collaged on windows
2024
Morph Spell (courtyard) is an installation of 8 morphing sequences which stretch the length of one city block, installed in the Green Hallway windows at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Depending on your body's orientation, certain shapes hug the outside edges of parts of buildings and plants. Most shapes serve as in-between blobs that connect two different visual elements in the courtyard, while others convey either collapse or growth, depending on the direction you are traveling down the hallway. It is made of straight strips of vinyl, directly collaged onto the windows. While drawing these shapes on-site, I was reflecting on the sense that this courtyard is secure, made of solid infrastructure. It feels safe and static, yet is fully engaged in transformation: the changing states of plants and soil through the seasons, the gradual weathering on the building and wooden tables, the force of gravity on everything. I was also ruminating on the US funding contemporaneous bombings in Palestine and Lebanon: the ease with which a building can collapse and a landscape be completely transformed by destruction, with weapons by companies this university collaborates with. This installation is a spell to perceive our own limited, shifting perspective of places outside of ourselves.
"Morph Spell (courtyard)" was installed for "Sculpture Forever", curated by Karyn Olivier, at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia