another, another green world

2003
clay
glazes
wood bases

the “another, another green world” sculptures were made with eyes closed, listening to different pieces of music from brian eno’s LP “another green world”, which i received as a gift when i was in grammar school. because “another green world” was one of the first things i heard that made me think about sound abstractly, i decided to use the recording to generate abstract forms. i had been making blind listening drawings for years, and wanted to see how the process might also generate sculptural forms. thus, i listened to each track on eno’s record, allowing the sounds to determine the movements of my hands and fingers in relation to what i was hearing. each sculpture was formed during a single play of each track.

there are ceramic 14 sculptures – one for each track on the LP. the six shades of green glaze are based on a system of grouping ‘songs’ (and sculpture sessions) by rounding up or down their lengths to the nearest half minute – the shortest tracks featuring two shades of green, and the longest featuring 7 shades of green. these time based groupings also determined the height of each base.

the ceramics were made during a residency at the pomona college museum of art.

the clustered image is from the pomona college museum of art exhibition, steve roden: the another silent green world. the linear installation on a shelf was from an exhibition at the laura reynolds gallery in austin texas.