Elegant bodies slowly gliding across the playa with graceful weightless movement. Free from restraint or support - simply floating adrift without mooring or direction - driven or carried along as by the current, slowly becoming visible, noticed or found. Having thrown off or shed its skin or covering, the sculptures resemble something akin to a raw nerve, a single cell or follicle with loose dendrites branching from a neuron. A nerve in search of a stimulus -a beacon focused into the distance with little awareness of its extended appendages that follow its path. 2013 Honoraria
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Drifts by Michael Christian

Photo by: Scott London

Year: 2013

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Elegant bodies slowly gliding across the playa with graceful weightless movement. Free from restraint or support - simply floating adrift without mooring or direction - driven or carried along as by the current, slowly becoming visible, noticed or found. Having thrown off or shed its skin or covering, the sculptures resemble something akin to a raw nerve, a single cell or follicle with loose dendrites branching from a neuron. A nerve in search of a stimulus -a beacon focused into the distance with little awareness of its extended appendages that follow its path. 2013 Honoraria

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