Felt Spring, 2020
This installation was Part 2 of the ‘Winter Light Installation Series’ at Russell Janis Project Space in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
“Caroline creates familiar, shared human experiences that play with perception and reality. In Felt Spring, they investigate the making of a generic child's drawing, asking what would happen if the drawing was transferred from flat paper to a 3-D, life-size diorama? A chalkboard sketch video is projected on the back wall and a landscape created mimicking the way a child fills in stylized parts one at a time: starting with the grass, then the sun, clouds, sky, etc. Drawn elements are mirrored to the physical space of the room - sky created with draped blue fabric with quilting batting cutout clouds, painted paper rows of grass sticking straight up from the floor, a bird, a bee, flowers and "heat rays" suspended in front of sun, all meticulously constructed from felt. The choice of these objects and materials is childlike, but the detail-oriented execution is of an experienced hand, blurring the lines between adult and child experiences. Two perspectives: one young and naive, beginning to understand the world - another as an adult shaped by experience, institutions and culture.”