I was one of a number of artists invited to propose a work for the interior of a former funeral home, which had just been purchased as the site for Intersection for the Arts. Working from a phenomenological approach to site conditioned public art, following the writing of the artist Robert Irwin. I worked with the curator to carefully choose a site (the former embalming room) and to embrace its historic use and craft a visual/material intervention that used water and light to transfer the space and the memory of its use. Taking my cue from the door frame, I constructed a room within a room with glass ceiling holding a pool of still water. Every thirty seconds a drop would fall into that pool and project shadows that would radiate in concentric circles up the walls of the artwork.
– Tim Collins
This work is built for you, you’re out.
This work is built for the space it is in, it’s in.The concentric circles coming off the drip
move beyond the borders of this little puddle in space.Stop and feel the soothing stroke of each ring
as it comes off the puddle and begins to travel.The doors keep you out, the stroke is for the dead.