Field 2005
The dormant beehive kiln at a former brick company becomes a poetic expression of time through a subtle intervention. Six evenly spaced burner ports, each sandblasted with a word, surround a water-filled flue. The words name the various face rotations of a six-sided brick – soldier, sailor, stretcher, shiner, header, rowlock - terms used for generations to describe brick laying patterns in land and architecture. Countless firing cycles and the turning over of earth serve as backdrops for imagined narratives suggested by the potent words, complicating and perhaps subverting our initial perceptions of the space.
