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Ascension evokes questions about gravity, structure, balance, and the human body in relation to space, and how engaging with those elements has the power to reshape perception. The sections of Ascension appear to be lifting off and rising into the air, as if they effervesce and break off into the air.
The piece leans on its edge, forever off balance, and that is part of the story. It is meant to cause those who encounter it in the wild, on the street, to pause, stop, and reflect, its unexpected shape serving as an entry point to looking at the world and their own life from a new, unexpected perspective.
The original idea for the work came from a dream I had years before, involving a form that seemed to represent both stillness and the passage of time.
Nine feet of weathering steel, permanently installed at the corner of 36th Street and 9th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan since 2016.
