Poems, Quotes, and Meanderings Related to “Pauses in Drifting and White Caves”

"Pauses in Drifting and White Caves" is the title of my artwork that is also the primary portion of my thesis work. It is an installation involving objects, sound, and video. I exhibited this work in the MFA thesis exhibition entitled "Outside In" in the CU Art Museum from April 6-19, 2007. The space containing "Pauses in Drifting and White Caves" measured approximately 16 feet wide, 36 feet long, and 12 feet high. &nbsp; In this piece, numerous connected abstract shapes cut out from 1/8" thick Styrofoam sheeting and vinyl translucent carpet covering lie on the ground with the Styrofoam overlapping the carpet covering pieces in some parts. The two materials form a visual pathway that begins from the right-hand side of the space where the viewer first walks in. It then curves to the back, splitting one pathway to the right back corner, the other leading to the left and close to the far and lengthwise wall in an organic formation. About half way into the space, the path begins to split up more like tributaries of a river. The tributaries go in different directions, around and under a flowing but sculpted mass of larger rectangular Styrofoam sheeting that begins from the right edge of a large video projection of about 5 by 9 feet on the back wall measuring 12 by 16 feet. The thin sheeting sculpted on the wall is layered densely and holds itself like spastic waves that are curling up into it, frozen, but spilling out from the corner of the wall and onto the floor. The mass comes out in combinations of waves and flows, pleats and layers of the Styrofoam material having been worked with like fabric. It comes out of the corner in the form of a large diagonal movement, from the right-hand side of the video and towards the back left area and up to a large white translucent plastic cave nestled in puffy white pillow surroundings. The cave is large enough for two people to sit comfortably inside.</p