ARCH 501 | Fall 2020
Studio Critic: Vanessa Keith
Collaboration with Andy Hu, Susie Dole & Zihua Mo
“There lies at the end of the world, at the edge of the Big water, a cave. In this cave sits an old woman who holds the tide line across her lap. This controls the ebb and flow or rising and falling of the water. She holds this line very strongly. If perhaps you can get her to let it go off the line, the water will fall….”
-Raven and how the tides began,
A Tlingit Legend, First People
Time Forest is an installation that incorporates four artifacts to create a visual narrative of transformation. The chamber is designed to nestle and support each artifact in its journey through time. The movement of the Mimbres bowl guides the visitor through the space, while the Tlingit Seal and Dene Basket infuse energy and intricacy into the form.
The path through Time Forest is a loop that echoes the infinite turning of the Mimbres bowl, and each artifact embodies its own transformational quality.
The basket symbolizes the transformation of natural materials, the seal embodies the push and pull of universal forces, the pipe transforms breath into prayer, and the turning of the bowl represents the cycle of life and time.
