On "When the Earth Bends we Bend" Melissa Vogley Woods explores the earth's geologic time scale and its record depicted as layered, fractured, and mended patterns.
With Vogley Woods' work she asks, how does thinking in the earth’s time scale affect our own? She utilizes the little known and slow baroque-era material that uncannily mimics marble called scagliola.
In "When the Earth Bends We Bend" Vogley Woods presents free-standing scagliola knot sculptures based on extinct marble patterns, panels of invented marbles, watercolors, and low-relief figurative works. The scale and form of the knots are bodily, simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar.
Her sculptures examine how recreating extinct marbles can be a form of rebirth, of reclamation or devotion. Her sculptures function as threshold objects, teetering and conflating the body and the earth.
Melissa Vogley Woods’ sculptures and watercolors are unreal, yet viscerally rock-like, mineral, echoing stone.
