| In her eighteenth solo exhibition/installation, "Living Patterns," Joyce McDaniel suspended overhead a 16' x 32' grid of steel mesh layered with translucent ochre-colored patterns. The warm light illuminated layers of dress patterns replete with small letters, numbers, and lines that created a kind of map. | ||||||||||
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Inked on the patterns were four huge letters, A, T, G, C, abbreviations for the building blocks that make up our DNA and determine our genetic endowment. Hanging by waxed linen threads ten feet beneath these letters were 1600 wooden block print letters, all very similar and yet each quite different. |
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In this trembling genetic language landscape, the language of life's patterns, became sculptural form; at one extreme writ large enough to move under it, and at the other small enough to walk around in it. This work synthesized intersections of the visual and verbal, of the scientific and artistic, and of the personal and universal.
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