Site Specific Statement for Installation
The Renton Mine Hoist is currently surrounded by asphalt and roadways filled with motor vehicles moving in several directions at relatively high speeds. How can one find time to slow down and reflect? The deeper history and sense of time present beside the ruin is difficult to access and grasp.
However living organisms once existed, reveling in and gathering the sunlight of their day, to form the coal seam in Renton. An incredibly vast span of time was required to transform and compress this ancient sunlight into usable energy. Much later, the great efforts of Renton's citizens were given over to extracting this coal in order to build the foundation and infrastructure of our current culture in King County.
Through a site-specific temporary sculpture and performance, I wish to honor all the life forms and energy spent at or near this mine site.
However living organisms once existed, reveling in and gathering the sunlight of their day, to form the coal seam in Renton. An incredibly vast span of time was required to transform and compress this ancient sunlight into usable energy. Much later, the great efforts of Renton's citizens were given over to extracting this coal in order to build the foundation and infrastructure of our current culture in King County.
Through a site-specific temporary sculpture and performance, I wish to honor all the life forms and energy spent at or near this mine site.
