In Dark Waters, 2022
Shelby Aloisio
Installation board, wood, paint, clay, gravel, printed canvas, taxidermy sealife
A tesseract looks like a cube within a cube creating a “hypersurface” in geometry. There are eight walls that make up this three dimensional object requiring the theory of a fourth dimension. I have built the shell of a warped tesseract (made to look like the suction of a black hole) that is drawn to the transformation of life to death and death to life essentially shortcutting the distance of the line in the sand. The energetic pull of the cube pressured to a fine point interacts with the tip of a severed octopus tentacle which has its own brain, now inactive. The unknown has taken over and this is my model of what the transfer of afterlife looks like. Beliefs on this subject are personal reliefs. I like to think the predator is allowed to continue the cycle of life and what was lost is making its way to a lighthouse in another dimension.
