San Diego, Califorina
The Threshold Gardens were created for Stepping Stone, a residential recovery facility located
in Normal Heights, California. The drawings for the project later became part of a Flux Gallery exhibition entitled ‘Rock PaperScissors’. The following is the artist’s statement prepared for the show.
Boundaries within the structure of lives provides for a sense of order and meaning. Periods of change to this stability often bring about states of uncertainty. These portals of transformation create an ephemeral milieu of limbo—a threshold into aspects of lives not fully recognized.
It is within this idea of willful transgression that the Threshold Gardens seek to reveal a sentient way of seeing and understanding.
The elements within the gardens create an anticipatory sense of discovery and surprise, gently revealed through movement, light and fluidity of textures, shapes colors and scale. Through a juxtaposition of visual metaphors a heightened sense of awareness was enlivened for the participant. Doweled 2 x 4’s create bridges into the gardens and introduce this liminal idea of “crossingover”. Towering wood windows drift dream like through the spaces providing the suggestion of “a window into something else”. Curiosity is peaked by a pulsing thin blue line. The barely audible murmur of water is heard before it is actually seen, the sound tempting one to go in search of the source. Pausing on the threshold, the gardens seek to conjure a curiosity about life and a desire to inquire about the potential for “another and differentkind of place”.
