BLANE DE ST. CROIX
Library Fire: Landscapes, 2011 (installation view)
Library Fire: Landscapes, 2011 (detail)
Rolling library ladder, 24 drawings on wood panels, wood cabinets, Masonite and gold sizing
Panels 14 x 11 inches each
Overall dimensions 10 feet high x 3 feet wide x 6 inches deep
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Mia O.
Library Fire: Landscapes, 2011 (detail)Rolling library ladder, 24 drawings on wood panels, wood cabinets, Masonite and gold sizing
Panels 14 x 11 inches each
Overall dimensions 10 feet high x 3 feet wide x 6 inches deep
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Mia O.
Library Fire: Landscapes, 2011 (detail)
Rolling library ladder, 24 drawings on wood panels, wood cabinets, Masonite and gold sizing
Panels 14 x 11 inches each
Overall dimensions 10 feet high x 3 feet wide x 6 inches deep
Courtesy of the artist
In Library Fire: Landscapes, a modernist library of minimalist forms houses 24 drawings of charred landscapes. Of indeterminate time or place, each landscape represents wild fires that have crossed our southern and northern borders. Evoking ancient book forms to capture contemporary landscapes, De St. Croix parallels the extinction of both nature and knowledge.