NATURAL SELECTION

steel and copper, 46" h x 24" w x 18" d

A freestanding steel armature resembles at once a three-storey house with pitched roof and a torso with a corset. The construction contains a horizontal grid surmounted by a network of rising sharp points. It seems that copper disks have rained through the structure, have gone past the grid and gathered in a mesh receptacle near the bottom of the armature. The points have impaled seven of the disks they keep suspended in mid air. The names of the seven deadly sins appear inscribed on these disks while the others remain blank. This complex setting locates a game at once cruel and arbitrary that assigns condemnations at random. A suggested cycle of movement within this “torso-house” guarantees that accusations shall find their chance victims. There is no escape; all shall look forward to their moment in the limelight of abuse.