Jordan Taylor has installed a series of stelae in perpetuity outside the Everhart Museum (www.everhart-museum.org ) in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The outdoor siting is their second installation following a solo exhibition at Marywood University's Mahady Gallery. The choice to exhibit indoors, with a subsequent outdoor installation addresses time and issues of posterity. The monolithic sculptural components stand over 6 feet tall and weigh 8000 pounds each. Taylor fired these stelae for ten days, using primarily wind blown red pine, so that they vitrified to an estimated 6-8% porosity, allowing for their slow disintegration and erosion down the watershed, back to the Chesapeake Bay near where the raw clay was mined. Taylor writes, "Their brief time indoors freezes processes of continual revelation and transformation; the outdoor siting restarts esthetic and conceptual evolutions."
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