1000 Skyshapes is inspired by connecting to students while remote teaching and is part of
an ongoing series, Skyshapes. The sky, while helping to define a unique sense of space
and place, is also something huge, outside ourselves, universal and ubiquitous. By putting
the shape of the sky into drawings, collages and sculptures, I am making the sky a thing to
hold, to understand, to identify as our own: a part of ourselves.
Socially distanced walks along the Detroit River
have taught me to appreciate the dichotomy of the horizon line where the sky and individual skyhapes meet. It is an active line which shows the viewer a direct connection between an individual’s place and the rest
of the world. It asks the viewer to do the work of remembering the others around them.

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