Rob and I drove around Massachusetts and Maine last summer. I’ve lost most of my shots from that trip due to a hard drive crash, but I did find shots I’d taken at Mass MoCA, an old factory converted into an amazing contemporary art museum.
This shot is from the “Material World: Sculpture to Environment” exhibition, and the installation is called “White Stag.” I shot this from *inside* one of the trees, you can see the piece from many other perspectives in this Flickr search.
From the exhibition catalog: “Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen have been working with paper since their first collaboration in 2005. The versatility of the material — which can be flat or volumetric, smooth or textured, buoyant or heavy — allow the artists a wide range of possibilities for their large-scale installations which they describe as “investigations of the uncertain territory between imagined and physical space.” At MASS MoCA the duo has responded to the museum’s industrial, brick architecture with its imagined opposite: a fantastical, old growth forest fashioned from twisted, crumpled, and draped rolls of paper. The ghostly image of the decaying natural landscape, however, mirrors in some way the fading industrial landscape embodied by the museum’s repurposed factory spaces. Spanning two floors, the installation appears to grow from one gallery to the next, joining the separate spaces and providing viewers a different perspective on the labyrinthine building.”
After my hard drive crashed back in January, I realized that I REALLY needed to get my act together and get my images backed up, and in one spot. I haven’t had the cash to get that drive scanned, so I’ve lost almost everything I took in 2009-2010, to my deep regret.
