(fa)(cas)cade

Materials: Vintage Oil Painting, Hollywood Scenery Flat, Two Sandbags, Water Pump
4’ x 6’ x 7’
2018 

(fa)(cas)cade is an absurd sculpture that functions as both a Hollywood scenic flat and a working fountain. The work draws inspiration from a scene in Buster Keaton's film The Boat and La Cascade by René Magritte. In The Boat, Keaton attempts to hang a seascape painting inside his boat, only to have ocean water gush in and flood the cabin. In La Cascade, Magritte places a painting of a forest within the same forest landscape, blurring the line between image and reality. Borrowing from the surreal logic and humor of both works, (fa)(cas)cade reflects on illusion, artifice, and the construction of reality.

exhibitions:
Captain Rooftop, JAUS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2018