ARTIST STATEMENT

PONDering is Energy in the Stillness,
PONDering is Noise in the Silence,
PONDering is Shapes in the Unshapable.
PONDering is Void against the Objects.

PONDering is the title of two floor installations consisting of either hundreds of paper coffee filters or hundreds of skeins of wool and acrylic yarn.  The coffee filters are bound together to create a rosette shape that resembles water  lettuce (pistia stratiotes). The yarn is laboriously crocheted together to create the same shape.  These repeating bundles—like a reiterated chant—are then arranged in a random pattern as if they are floating on a pond or configured by a moving stream of water. Viewers are encouraged to walk into the installation among the individual bundles and stop for a moment to contemplate and meditate, to grow into the void and float, like flowers.  PONDering is based on the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, loosely defined as a kind of beauty that is imperfect, incomplete and impermanent.