River Bed – Assemblage Installation

A layered assemblage of upholstered boxes, each holding shapes of naturally compressed river mosses and debris, found on the rocky shoreline of a shallow stretch of the Mississippi River at Carleton Place. Clear plastic cylinders separate the boxes. There is metaphoric meaning in each of the installation elements, their assemblage positioning, and the visitor’s bending action to look between and into the boxes, thereby completing this work. The narratives relate to human mortality, resistance to letting go, and, through kinesthetic perception, awareness of our interconnection with the whole.