Petrichor

Summer nights. Philadelphia Old City. Suspended lights and forms immerse the third floor with kaleidoscopic glows and shadows. A site-specific installation of ceramic lamps and sculptures.

A rainstorm came through while we were installing this show. The pieces hanging in the space started to feel like dozens of droplets, fluid suspended in the moment like raindrops falling from the sky or vapor released from the earth, frozen in the air. I smelled petrichor: that earthy scent that is present after a fresh rain.

The sense of smell feels personal and instinctive to me, maybe because we don’t have many English words to describe it unlike taste or vision. I want to create work that communicates with our animal senses - that is separate from logical thinking and rather about impulse, something we feel.

2019
Ceramic, steel cable and lighting components
Petrichor was exhibited at Olio Projects in Philadelphia, PA in 2019