Flection
Climate Installation at the Palo Alto Art Center
Imagine you are a frog in your pond, and this is what you might see on a summer’s late afternoon.
This room (20 by 17 feet) is covered by a hugely enlarged continuous photograph of a small patch of a beaver pond. Viewers walk (or pretend swim if your a kid) across the pond surface of soft blues and whites intersected by arching blades of grass with zig-zag black calligraphic reflections.
This humble spot formed by a beaver dam is an essential water habitat that filters and holds ground water (preventing drought and runoff) and is a hub sustaining life for many species of insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and mammals.
Sukey installing her exhibit in the 20ft x 17ft Glass Gallery of Palo Alto Art Center
Sukey Bryan’s immersive, photographic installation captures a “frog’s-eye view” of a pond.
Project Details
On view January - April 2023
Palo Alto Art Center, part of “Under Water” exhibition
Glass Gallery: 20’L x 17’W x 10’H
Photograph on Paper and Terylene Polyester Fabric
Palo Alto, CA, 2023