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 | Meg Webster
Untitled installation (1984)
Wood, hay, earth
500 Sampsonia Way, 1st floor |
| | Three enclosures stand in the long gallery – a conical form of rammed earth, a tall, narrow box of natural pine, and a pyramid of hay. You squeeze through the narrow opening of the mud form. The tapering walls are damp to your touch. The smell is cool and earthy. You climb a steep ramp into the wooden box. Two can sit inside on benches protruding from opposite walls, with knees touching, inhaling the odor of raw wood, leaning against the unfinished boards. |  |
|  | "The work is both object and space for entering a kind of pre-architecture. The pieces in this installation are both sculptural forms and vessels meant to be entered by the viewer and perceived from within." |
| | High, spongy steps of baled hay lead up into the third enclosure, a silent chamber of sweet-smelling grasses six feet above the gallery floor. |  |
|  | Meg Webster
American, born 1944 |
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