RePLACEment Project: 1978
The RePLACEment Project unfolded over a period of six weeks on a hilltop top knoll in southern Vermont during the summer of 1978.
For the duration of the project, five 4 x 8-inch eastern hemlock beams were successively repositioned, leveled and photographed once a week. Each array in the series evolved from its previous configuration, generating two distinctive sets of compositions: Parallel and Entangled.
The linear and mass equilibrium between two twelve foot and the three eight-foot Hemlock beams is disrupted and disguised in arrangements that result from different actions. In the Parallel set, the eight-foot beams are always parallel to one other and placed at right angles to and between the twelve-foot beams. In the Entangled set, one eight-foot beam is always perpendicular with the other two eight-foot beams, and the two twelve-foot beams are always perpendicular to each other. The Parallel arrangements narrow as the Entangled arrangements inflate.
The RePLACEment project site and vicinity was once the location of a bygone dwelling or farm building. Implying foundational underpinning and construction, the temporal RePLACEment arrangements evoke the passage of time and imagined memory in sculpture that seeks form in a space occupied by similarity and deviation.
