Muskegon Museum of Art

2025

One’s-Self I Sing, rendering for Muskegon Museum of Art, rendering credit: Jordan Gottsacker

One’s-Self I Sing, work in progress, photo credit: Austin Van Sluys

One’s-Self I Sing is a large-scale, site- specific installation that investigates the current moment in relation to Deep Time.  The sculpture, measuring approximately 180” x 120” x 48”, can be thought of as an “exploded” still life, a genre that holds the capacity to illuminate the ways that we understand our world through visual metaphors. 

The sculpture will converge both floors of the new expansion, offering a visual continuity between multiple landings. Different aspects of the composition will be discovered upon entering the museum, ascending/descending the stairs or viewing from the second floor. Objects that reference to the Muskegon Museum of Art’s permanent collection will be incorporated. The marriage of transparent cultural objects and opaque rock formations alludes to what is seen and known juxtaposed with what is concealed and lost over time.

One’s-Self I Sing will be permanently installed in the Fall of 2024.