Untitled

With hundreds of strands of black Japanese cotton tape yarn stretched taut from the wall to the floor, this untitled installation forms a concave shape—wider at the edges with a void at the center. It appears to surround and embrace the viewer like a nest or cocoon, inviting associations with security and shelter. Like the conceptual wall drawings of Sol LeWitt, the composition of Untitled is arranged according to a set of instructions and created with new materials each time it is installed. The strands either overlap or run parallel in varying densities, creating an optical shimmer, suggestive of many contradictions—durability and ephemerality, precision and imprecision, hardness and softness, and austerity and sensuousness. The work is a drawing in space, liberated from the page.