TILT & SWAY
When Air and Light Were One
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The Sun and the Moon and the Stars
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Above Sculptures
Row one: Star Dust
Row two: Puppet Flower
Row three: The Monkey and the Mouse
Row four: Blinded by Fog
Row one: Star Dust
Row two: Puppet Flower
Row three: The Monkey and the Mouse
Row four: Blinded by Fog
It's Mine You Can't Have It
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Dancing Fireflies of a Thousand Hues
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Song of the Dawn
We Are the Other People
A Small Blue Thing
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The Ocean Will Have Us All
Seeds and Roots and Stones of Fruits
All of His Chaos
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TILT & SWAY
2023
Utilizing the papier-mâché process, I create forms, with strips of paper from topical headlines and stories, clipped from pages of the New York Times. The flimsy strips of newsprint become structure through repeated layering. Further in the process, these forms are covered in encaustic wax, smoothing and sealing the surface, preserving these objects, as if in amber.
The core materials in use here are discarded and organic. These sculptures are an intervention that gives these materials a second life and purpose. Mirrors and rhinestones serve to both attract and reflect, light and color, beyond the pieces, in a dazzling display that changes with the external light. Mirrors place the viewer in the work, no longer a safe passive observer, you are implicated. We are all implicated.
Tilt and Sway is a reflection of the now, accepting the ugly, off-balance and tarnished reality of the present. It is both, a communal scream of alarm and an invitation to celebrate our shared humanity. Like a tree growing in counterbalanced movements upwards, even as the Earth itself can no longer be relied on to sustain us. The path forward is to remain nimble, seek balance and truth even as the ground shifts below us. With eyes wide open remembering, reflecting, confronting what is on a micro level as well as zooming out to an Overview Effect perspective. At this time, in this moment, simultaneously experiencing the horror and beauty, tilting and swaying towards the horizon line, as the sun rises and sets and a new day’s headlines arrive at our door.
—Tracey St. Peter, September 2023
The core materials in use here are discarded and organic. These sculptures are an intervention that gives these materials a second life and purpose. Mirrors and rhinestones serve to both attract and reflect, light and color, beyond the pieces, in a dazzling display that changes with the external light. Mirrors place the viewer in the work, no longer a safe passive observer, you are implicated. We are all implicated.
Tilt and Sway is a reflection of the now, accepting the ugly, off-balance and tarnished reality of the present. It is both, a communal scream of alarm and an invitation to celebrate our shared humanity. Like a tree growing in counterbalanced movements upwards, even as the Earth itself can no longer be relied on to sustain us. The path forward is to remain nimble, seek balance and truth even as the ground shifts below us. With eyes wide open remembering, reflecting, confronting what is on a micro level as well as zooming out to an Overview Effect perspective. At this time, in this moment, simultaneously experiencing the horror and beauty, tilting and swaying towards the horizon line, as the sun rises and sets and a new day’s headlines arrive at our door.
—Tracey St. Peter, September 2023