Installation view
Precipitation
2008
Used water bottles and plastic grocery bags, string, and water from the gallery
9’ x 15’ x 8’
As part of the two-person exhibition Accumulation with Amanda Thatch as curated by Mary Fortuna at Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
Installation view
The white grocery bags are fluffed and filled with more bags and hung from the space like a puffy, loose funnel cloud. The bottles on the ground are filled with water from the gallery and over the duration of the exhibition become their own little microclimates with the water evaporating and condensing at the top of the bottles and then eventually trickling its way back down. This piece at Paint Creek directly followed after the Funnel Cloud piece at the Secor building in Toledo, only in this case the viewers weren’t drinking from a case of provided water and then adding to the piece with their empties. The next piece that most directly drew upon this one and Funnel Cloud was Untitled (Anton Art Center) in 2012.
— Andy T
Detail, bags & bottles
Detail, condensation
“Consumable products exist in a temporary state of being. To complete their purpose they must be consumed: their structure, even down to the molecule, is reconfigured and repurposed by the body of the consumer. Our culture is packaging a majority of these temporary products in permanent materials. My art is in a temporary state of being…”
— Original statement for the piece