Artist Statement

The future is not written, it evolves and changes based on our actions. Each of these cranes represent a person who hopes and dreams, our presence or absence determines whether the cranes take flight or remain afloat. I first started thinking about a piece like this during the summer of 2006 when it felt that all of Washington DC was being inundated by flooding and rain. Unlike other times when this had happened, there was no hurricane or specific reason for the flooding, it was just days and days of rain. I wanted to explore the intersection of hope and action through a piece that requires action on the part of the viewer to function.
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