Gestures is made of white perforated polyester mesh boxes sewn to my standing body scale and installed in pairs. The pairs will be installed in various gestural positions that relate to each other. Being white in color the perforated mesh will show up well against the dark cork and the interiors are visible which will add visual depth. The polyester forms are pliable, not rigid, but have enough tensile strength to hold their “gesture” yet still will gradually shift and relax over time as they respond to the environmental elements of heat, air currents, and gravity. Installed, the rectangular boxes become individually different organic forms.
One pair of the Gestures series will be installed and centered over every bed. The relationship of the human scale of the forms to the human scale of the beds becomes very interesting to me, as does the idea of two, a pair sharing a bed, as well as the visual connection between Gestures and the white rumpled sheets after a night’s sleep. A hotel room can be a personal space, a place to unwind, a place to decompress, and, perhaps, a place to become intimate. That’s a good night.
