Florence Mill ArtLoft, 2010
Holding my Horses is an installation and performance art piece that links traces of an early unsettled American landscape with the trajectory of migration, movement forward in time, toward a place, a dream. The thought of migration and going towards something that takes time, patience and endurance is an underlying structure to the project.
In thinking about the process of movement forward and migration, there is often a focus of the place that one is hoping to find, build or discover. In the definition of “reserve” the idea of land is addressed; a physical place saves for a particular use. The elevated layer glass cube is located in cardinal directions in the far corner of the room forms a compass and points to the dream of a place, ready to descend or be built for the future, while its form connects to the nomadic.
What are you waiting for?
Participant responded with one-two words, those were then translated into a knitted code by the artist.
View through the horses, towards the artist knitting
Knitting one line of 52 stitches per letter…. “a” is knit 2, purl 50.
Exhibition postcard, photograph by Artist
When horses sound like windchimes… a short handheld video from the installation