Moving in Amber (At the Speed of Sound)

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1989

Imagining timelessness.

A small room with illuminated paper walls and a floor covered with a thick layer of corn meal. Suspended in the center is a tree stump. Within the stump’s dark shadow, a long black rod slowly turns in a circle while a high-pitched whistle comes and goes to the rhythm of a living breath.