Organized religions encourage us to travel a certain path by telling stories. Her installations, by definition, are temporary, transitory. And yet many of the components she uses find new life in future installations. The ideas that she employs also evolve and are reborn in both artist and viewer. I want to know how Sawyer will dismantle the walls that she's built for Presence and Absence and whether she will salvage the metal tubes and reuse them in another installation.
Installations welcome playful questions and imagination.
They encourage it. Marcel Duchamp, an artist working earlier in this century, suggested that it is the viewer who completes a work of art. Consider a pilgrimage, then, to the local art museum. Let your mind soar. Austin Chronicle .