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Janet Echelman
born Tampa, FL 1966; resides Brookline, MA
1.8, 2015
knotted and braided fiber with programmable lighting and wind movement above printed textile flooring
Courtesy of Janet Echelman, Inc.
Echelman's woven sculpture corresponds to a map of the energy released across the Pacific Ocean during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, one of the most devastating natural disasters in recorded history. The event was so powerful it shifted the earth on its axis and shortened the day, March 11, 2011, by 1.8 millionths of a second, lending this work its title. Waves taller than the 100-foot length of this gallery ravaged the west coast of Japan, reminding us that what is wondrous can equally be dangerous. |