Magical Pew Supreme

This site specific installation stages a confessional inviting the visitor to symbolically genuflect, reflect and if appropriate, repent!

The installation translates our disconnection between what we label as the “natural” world and the “over-commercialized” Western world. Inspired by a Catholic upbringing and by K. Malevitch’s Suprematism, the form and aesthetic grew out of the constraints of the room. The towers are built out of trash picked up on Governors Island as well as of the artist’s own trash. They are covered with plaster clothes, as one would mend a broken leg, to repair their status and hide their true nature as trash.

Building up from floor to ceiling, the fragile constructions become totemic towers mirroring the “catastrophy in motion” aspect of city dwellings.

The Pew and the towers/totems are partially covered by flower petals also collected on the island. Each flower petal is pressed and applied as a potent messenger telling as much about our environment than about our own “nature”.