Arlene Shechet threads sections of a cast crystal rope into the wall. Ethereal blue in color, translucent, the brittle, frangible rope, once molten liquid, now solid, represents a number of transient and reversible states: the knotted and the loose, the bound and the free, attached and detached, the visible and invisible. Inspired by Buddhist iconography and spiritual beliefs, Shechet's appearing and disappearing rope passes through one reality to enter another and is emblematic of a universe in flux and the illusions that make up the world.
- Lilly Wei |
