BALANCE
Assemblage, 2014 – 2025
balance began in 2014, but shortly after starting the series I became dissatisfied with how each piece was attached to the wall. So after completing only 3 pieces, I abandoned the series, and it sat unfinished for eleven years. Recently, however, I revisited it. In the eleven years that passed, our country became almost unrecognizable to someone of my age. My own reckoning with this shift helped me devise a new method of displaying the work that more precisely tied the series together.

With balance I am focusing on the very point at which balance has to be maintained: that an imperceptible degree of change in either direction would throw the whole system out of balance and have it go crashing to the floor. I am talking about the razor thin edge of balance. I am using vintage straight edge razors which are attached, perpendicularly, to the wall, and on which I have balanced a small to medium size American flag, still attached to its original pole, and held in place by a counter weight. These counter weights represent various forces vying to throw this flag to the ground—and in so doing, our democracy.