Dimensions Installation Variable

Smaller Circles: 17” x 17” x 4” circles

Larger Circles: 24” x 24” x 4” circles

Recycled Skateboards, Aerosol, and Varnish on Poplar

Acknowledgement embraces concepts of abstraction, codes, and the right to opacity. Abstraction is utilized here both as a stylistic choice, and as a reflection of how history, culture, and identity are encoded within us and thus recognized on varying levels. The title comes from one section of John Coltrane’s four part suite, A Love Supreme. The installation lay out follows the second line of the score of Coltrane’s Acknowledgment. Jazz, as a musical genre full of encoded knowledge and an embrace of complexity and movement.

Here, viewers who skate recognize that the predominant material is skateboards; viewers who embroider recognize the cross stitch patterns; viewers who look at the news and computers identify the aerial maps component.