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ELLEN BABCOCK
TERI CLAUDE DOWLING
SONAMBULISMS
SEPTEMBER 8 - 29, 2005

"A PREOCCUPATION WITH RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EXPERIENCES OF FRAGMENTATION AND DESIRES FOR WHOLENESS, INCREASINGLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF COMPETING SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS WORLD VIEWS, HAS LED ME TO UNDERTAKE ACTIONS WITH VARIOUS CONTRUCTION MATERIAL TO UNCOVER A LINK BETWEEN THE MATERIAL ITS PAST AND FUTURE. I LOOK FOR VERY SIMPLE GESTURES TO UNDERTAKE WITH MATERIALS SUCH AS WOOD, CONCRETE, PAPER, STYROFOAM, SHEETROCK OR SPACKLE. INTERRUPTING THEIR BLAND SURFACES, DRAWING OUT A
SENSE OF FRAGILITY AND THE VERY PRECARIOUS BALANCE BETWEEN CONSTRUCTION AND DECAY."
ELLEN BABCOCK

“HAVING GROWN UP IN THE DESERT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THE LANDSCAPE OF THE WEST AND THE WESTERN STYLE OF LIVING IS CENTRAL TO MY WORK. MY CURRENT SCUPTURAL WORK COMBINES A CLAUSTROPHOBIC DOMESTICITY WITH AN ABSENCE OF FOCUS, A FEELING I REMEMBER FROM THE DESERT, LIVING INSIDE A SMALL CINDERBLOCK HOUSE, SURROUNDED BY THE VASTNESS OF THE LANDSCAPE."
TERI CLAUDE DOWLING