Rebecca Niederlander
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Central Sensitization
Wood and steel
15’ x 20’ x 15’. 2020.
Website: https://www.becster.org/
California, USA
VO by Mari Weiss
Wood and steel
15’ x 20’ x 15’. 2020.
Website: https://www.becster.org/
California, USA
VO by Mari Weiss
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
Central sensitization is the condition of the nervous system associated with the development and maintenance of chronic pain. When central sensitization occurs, the nervous system goes through a process called wind-up and gets regulated in a persistent state of high reactivity. I see what the world is experiencing right now as such a thing.
STATEMENT:
Mary Oliver wrote that “attention is the beginning of devotion.” I find lately that my practice is more and more about being a responsible devotee. Wood, paper, wire, plastic, whatever. Complicated individual elements are brought together precariously; they connect together, stressed by gravity and tension. They are completely responsible for each other. The more precarious, the more their mortality and their response to the stressors of existence mimics our own fleeting moment. I am a materialist in the truest sense of the word.
I interrogate these materials lovingly and with great care. It is compulsive, this need for connection.
I stand there, with you, be it in person or in spirit. I imagine that we both saw the little place where specks of dust had made a home. I am a speck of dust, as are you, but it is stardust. Every atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded. We are in the middle of our bodies, our families, our communities, the Milky Way.
At its essence: Things fall apart and reconnect. I document it.
I interrogate these materials lovingly and with great care. It is compulsive, this need for connection.
I stand there, with you, be it in person or in spirit. I imagine that we both saw the little place where specks of dust had made a home. I am a speck of dust, as are you, but it is stardust. Every atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded. We are in the middle of our bodies, our families, our communities, the Milky Way.
At its essence: Things fall apart and reconnect. I document it.
DESCRIPTION:
Central Sensitization
This outdoor installed sculpture is built from strips of thin, light colored wood. Hundreds of these strips form loops that are attached to each other. These rib-like loops flow from around the trunk of a sycamore tree toward the front porch of a house, across the roof and drape off a pergola on the left side of the house. One image shows a detail of the loops with green foliage in the background, and the other photographs show the wooden loops draping over the front of the house, pergola, and tree.
-description by Teri Grossman
This outdoor installed sculpture is built from strips of thin, light colored wood. Hundreds of these strips form loops that are attached to each other. These rib-like loops flow from around the trunk of a sycamore tree toward the front porch of a house, across the roof and drape off a pergola on the left side of the house. One image shows a detail of the loops with green foliage in the background, and the other photographs show the wooden loops draping over the front of the house, pergola, and tree.
-description by Teri Grossman
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