Cast Off-Industrial Arch Room / March 15-30

“Cast Off-Industrial Arch Room"
by artists Meadow and Elisa Pritzker
Photo credit: Enrique Rob Lunski / Elisa Pritzker

Model on view at the gallery from March 15 to 30, 2009

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By appointments: 845-691-5506 / pritzkerstudio@aol.com

FREE / open to the general public
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The piece derives from Meadow’s Green Wood Spirits Series

and Elisa Pritzker's Nature versus Technology installations.

This is a model of a larger piece that the overall structure

will resemble a large outline arch passageway and square

room built from natural and recycled twigs or tree saplings.

Additional branches will be laid across the top providing

a structure to support the cast-off wires and cables and re-used CDs.

The viewer’s attention is drawn to the beauty and simplicity

of thenatural lines of the strong outside structure by wrapping

them with thousands of miniature lights. Lighting is an important

element in the piece; casting dramatic shadowson the landscape,

silhouetting the powerfulness of the form andreflecting on the CD’s

as they revolve in the wind, producing rainbowsand color flashes

that resemble a cosmic sunset. The cast-off wires and cables

individually hung down in even rows from the overhead branches

create pathways from former industrial production. They were

collected from years of computer users, old equipments, and

bygone electronics that focus attention on the wasted resources

thrown away on a daily basis.

The viewer is drawn to the charming quality and uniqueness of the

wires themselves as the playfully dance ever waiting instruction

to perform their intended tasks of yesteryear.

Through the “Cast Off-Industrial Arch Room” installation the

intention is to evoke the industrial era by re-using supplies produced

by the early manufacturing companies. At the same time, to establish

the creative potential and richness of cast-off materials and natural

resources forworks of art.