The Hadal Passage (liminal Fathom)

The Hadal Passage (Liminal Fathom) is an installation I was invited to create for The Wassaic Project’s Annual Exhibition, Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder.

The piece features 30+ small sculptures I have made recently and in the last 5 years and fills the eerie and odd space that is the 50ft Mill shaft at The Wassaic Project’s Maxon Mills Gallery.

About the work:

The Hadal Zone is a term for the deepest parts of the Earth’s oceans. It consists of trenches and troughs that extend nearly 7 miles below the water’s surface. Named after Hades, the Greek God of the underworld, this area is as inhospitable to human life as outer space. This work plumbs the depths asking what lies on the other side of an ocean trench, a black hole. Drawing parallels between the two worlds, while riffing on persistent themes in my work such as horror and sci-fi cinema, the occult, and weather phenomenon; the piece is an envisioning of unknowable worlds and those in-between and a metaphor for that which we cannot fathom, whether emotionally or corporeally.