Featured: BLOOM: THE ELEPHANT BED

This is John Grade's instillation up at the new Whatcom Museum in Bellingham running through April. You can see the video I made of the instillation of this piece.

Bloom: The Elephant Bed Install from Ian Gill on Vimeo.

"For the Whatcom Museum, John Grade will suspend a forest of bell-shaped sculptures from the Lightcatcher’s new twenty-six-foot-high gallery. Visitors can walk through and explore these dynamic forms that will change over time. During the course of the exhibition, several sculptures will be lowered into a pool of inky-black water where they will slowly dissolve. Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 10. This is when the remaining pieces will be cast into the Bellingham Bay after a public procession." Whatcom Museum

I would recommend that anyone go see this show. Seeing the pictures of this piece is one thing, but actually being in that space and surrounded by the towering structures completely changes what you think of them. Just be sure you don't walk into the pool of black ink.