Clark's newest sculpture features a window-like frame of koa and sugi(Cedar) wood with a small panoramic landscape from Izu Oshima rendered in monotype prints. Clark felt that witnessing the sakura...
Clark's newest sculpture features a window-like frame of koa and sugi(Cedar) wood with a small panoramic landscape from Izu Oshima rendered in monotype prints. Clark felt that witnessing the sakura trees in full bloom over the stark black fields of lava was an experience very specific to that island, yet the combination of the emblematic sakura and lava seemed to evoke the merging of two locations that were both personally resonant.
The two bases of lava stone replicas from his grandparents' rock wall revisit his earlier sculptural piece Untitled (excerpt of a rock wall), 2018, also in this exhibition. The rock wall speaks to his grandfather's integration of naturally occurring materials into a space shaped by human hands.