Angle of Repose

2009
Dimensions and materials 9.5'h x 13'w x 16'd, lumber, corn, glue

Optical Projects, Houston, TXBorrowed hay bales arranged into an amphitheater in Lawndale Art Center’s Main Gallery.

Recent bumper crops of corn in the United States, along with recollections fo the strangely-scaled representations on grade-school commodity maps, are the inspiration for a sculpture that is one part cheerful cornucopia and one part paranoiac preparation.