Fissure
2020
Ceramic glaze
13” x 7”
What appears to look like either a growth or decay made up of rock and minerals, a hairline crack runs through an exposed area of the wall. This fissure seems to barely open up into the void, and upon closer inspection it pulls you in. A motion sensor behind the crack triggers a vacuum to turn on for thirty seconds when the viewer gets roughly twelve inches way from the opening. Behind the wall a box sealed to a hose running from the vacuum offsite ensures that any light objects floating near the fissure will get sucked in. Along with its landscape reminiscent of a mysterious cave or portal, the work produces an ambient rushing sound from the air traveling across its surface after getting accessed.