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the exhibition, De St. Croix quite literally builds
a mountain upside down, referring to the strip mining
process of mountain top removal and filling of the valleys,
definitively flatting the land and stripping it of all
its resources and sustainability. The massive sculpture,
a monumental miniaturized landscape, dynamically cuts
through the exterior exhibition space spilling into
the interior gallery, while painstakingly reconstructing
the topography of a selected section of the Kayford
Mountain Ridge top in West Virginia as both a monument
and memorial to the land. The installation runs over
forty feet in length and towers above the exterior walls
as it climbs up twenty-two feet high. Additionally,
in the interior space numerous detailed ink drawings
are on view in support of the project. |
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