Glass Spiral

Meg Webster

Meg Webster is a multimedia artist closely affiliated with Post-Minimalism and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. Her practice has long been guided by an environmentalist approach to advocating for conserving and celebrating nature. Her highly structural, often minimal, sculptures grapple with ecological degradation and devastation. The works employ abstracted forms of water, earth, minerals, and plant life through use of hard geometric forms, including cones, mounds, spheres, spirals, pyramids, and prisms. Including a native perennial garden generates micro-ecosystems that enrich the local flora of the otherwise urban environment.

Glass Spiral emphasizes the fragility and resilience of nature. It invites viewers into the confines of its interior, distorting perceptions of space, depth, and distance, while simultaneously offering refuge, momentary respite, and protection from its external environment.

Meg Webster is a multimedia artist closely affiliated with Post-Minimalism and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. Her practice has long been guided by an environmentalist approach to advocating for conserving and celebrating nature. Her highly structural, often minimal, sculptures grapple with ecological degradation and devastation. The works employ abstracted forms of water, earth, minerals, and plant life through use of hard geometric forms, including cones, mounds, spheres, spirals, pyramids, and prisms. Including a native perennial garden generates micro-ecosystems that enrich the local flora of the otherwise urban environment.

Glass Spiral emphasizes the fragility and resilience of nature. It invites viewers into the confines of its interior, distorting perceptions of space, depth, and distance, while simultaneously offering refuge, momentary respite, and protection from its external environment.

An photograph of the artwork "'Untitled' (The New Plan)" by Felix Gonzalez-Torres from the year 1991. Exhibited with Sculpture Milwaukee for "Actual Fractals, Act III" on Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Exhibited in Actual Fractals, Act III, curated by John Riepenhoff. Courtesy of the Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Photograph by Michael Lagerman.
An photograph of the artwork "'Untitled' (The New Plan)" by Felix Gonzalez-Torres from the year 1991. Exhibited with Sculpture Milwaukee for "Actual Fractals, Act III" on Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Exhibited in Actual Fractals, Act III, curated by John Riepenhoff. Courtesy of the Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Photograph by Michael Lagerman.
Dom Pérignon vineyards from the sky
Dom Pérignon vineyards from the sky
Vine leaf
Vine leaf

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral – maybe the one here by the artist – do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral – maybe the one here by the artist – do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

Meg Webster is a multimedia artist closely affiliated with Post-Minimalism and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. Her practice has long been guided by an environmentalist approach to advocating for conserving and celebrating nature. Her highly structural, often minimal, sculptures grapple with ecological degradation and devastation. The works employ abstracted forms of water, earth, minerals, and plant life through use of hard geometric forms, including cones, mounds, spheres, spirals, pyramids, and prisms. Including a native perennial garden generates micro-ecosystems that enrich the local flora of the otherwise urban environment.

Glass Spiral emphasizes the fragility and resilience of nature. It invites viewers into the confines of its interior, distorting perceptions of space, depth, and distance, while simultaneously offering refuge, momentary respite, and protection from its external environment.

An photograph of the artwork "'Untitled' (The New Plan)" by Felix Gonzalez-Torres from the year 1991. Exhibited with Sculpture Milwaukee for "Actual Fractals, Act III" on Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Exhibited in Actual Fractals, Act III, curated by John Riepenhoff. Courtesy of the Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Photograph by Michael Lagerman.
Dom Pérignon vineyards from the sky
Vine leaf

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral – maybe the one here by the artist – do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

Meg Webster

Glass Spiral,

1990/2024

1/4" tempered glass, aluminum, silicone, irrigation system, soil and plants

1/4" tempered glass, aluminum, silicone, irrigation system, soil and plants

88 x 532 x 552 inches

Exhibition

Nature Doesn't Know About Us

Site

Museum Center Park

©Meg Webster, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

Social Choreography Score

By Kim Miller

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral maybe the one here by the artist do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

The spiral is a movement path that can scale infinitely tiny or as vast as the cosmos. We contain the scale of the micro to the macro in our body.

Wrap your body, arm or mind into a spiral. Then uncurl the spiral before folding your body, arm or mind into a spiral again. While holding the spiral formation, think about another spiral maybe the one here by the artist do you feel connected to it? Unfold your spiral again and relax your body, arm or mind.

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