K Staelin | work | growth series
Erik Sanner and K Staelin
Stranding Memory, 2009
Plastic, wire, dry ice, water, projected images and video
14 ft. high
A meditation on our experience of time, Stranding Memory is composed of projected videos of people that travel along a helix and projected images of events that form another helix. Fog from dry ice further enhances the dynamism of the piece as well as the sense of dissolution of memory over time.
Stranding Memory, 2009 by Erik Sanner and K Staelin, on Vimeo.
Collaboration: judsoN and K Staelin
Compost, 2009
Computer generated image, monitor, tv
60 x 17 x 17 in.
Nourished by TV signals the vines grow, sometimes exhibiting patterns of symmetry.
Collaboration: judsoN and K Staelin
Compost, 2009
Computer generated image, monitor, tv
60 x 17 x 17 in.
Despite having growth patterns the vines, nourished by TV
signals, grow continuously without ever repeating themselves.
This clip is silent though the piece uses tv signals.
Know, 2006 Homasote, concrete, paint, pigment, glue, marker, charcoal, graphite, medium, gesso, hooks, pins, yarn 42 plus 20-1/2 x 67.957428 in.
Detail of Know, 2006 Homasote, concrete, paint, pigment, glue, marker, charcoal, graphite, medium, gesso, hooks, pins, yarn 42 plus 20-1/2 x 67.957428 in.
NexNexus, 2006 Homasote, PVA glue, orange construction chalk, pigment, gesso (white & clear), magic marker 33 x 33 1/2 in.
Si (Y’up), 2006 Homasote, paint, tape, yarn, push-pins, glue, wall 49 x 58-3/4 in. (124.5 x 149.4 cm)
Comprised of three elements functioning on contradictory perceptual levels, “Si” plays with the notion of self-definition and boundaries and addresses ideas of expansion. Homasote outlined in vibrant green is fractured, and the pieces are arranged along the edges of a larger rectangle painted directly on the wall. This painted rectangle evokes both the texture of the homasote and the quality of pealed wall. Candy colored yarn outlines a yet larger rectangle. The fracturing of the homasote asserts the destruction engendered by expansion, and that very destruction is subsumed by growth, progress and the excitement of our dreams and plans.