BALANCE
For the City of Minneapolis
Public Service Building
Minneapolis, MN
2021
Aluminum, sculpted jade glass, translucent film, programmable LED lights with controllers, stainless steel, sound interface
7'10" x 27'9" x 22"
Creatively, this work communicates my own reflections on justice and the investigative practice of examining a situation or event from multiple points of view with the aim of making sense of a complex truth. The Investigations Bureau is responsible for gathering perspectives and evidence for this purpose. This is done by engaging with community, talking with people, gathering testimony, and establishing accountability. These many individual viewpoints must be assembled together in order to make a whole picture. The 340 columns of glass that form this work represent how a single image has many different fluctuating facets and can generate many varying interpretations, changing perspectives, and degrees of understanding. This project helped me to better recognize that public safety is not just the absence of crime; it is the presence of justice. I hope viewers will find some pleasure in engaging with this artwork and that it will inspire in them a similar form of personal and social reflection on justice and the art of everyday life.
