An Air for Drifting | 2022
Taps cast in pewter and pulverized meteorite (Moroccan, purchased in Tucson, AZ and mailed to Sylva, NC), tap shoes, whole meteorites, steel, circular mirror, vitrine, video documentation of a performance executed while wearing the tap shoes
An Air for Drifting is a collaboration with artist and dancer Lex Turnbull. To create it, I borrowed Lex’s tap shoes and created a mold of their taps, which were then recast in a mixture of pewter and pulverized Moroccan meteorite. The work is displayed with the modified shoes and leftover meteorites in a vitrine with documentation of Lex’s feet performing in the background.
The work gives tangible form to the idea of movement at various scales, both cosmic and terrestrial. The meteorite–something that came to Earth from across the galaxy, was brought to Tucson from Morocco, and then mailed across the United States–and a pair of shoes, used for human-scale locomotion, are cast as symbolic objects to act out an ode to matter caught in perpetual motion.
