Rachel Garrard

MORPHIC RESONANCE
May 22, 2021

In Morphic Resonance, Rachel Garrard continues her long-term inquiry into the nature of manifest reality by using natural elements to expose the slipperiness between the unseen, immaterial world and the sensorially witnessed, material world.

Garrard brings ten tons of quartz sand into the gallery space for a site-specific installation, sculpting the sand into mounds and depressions that form a vernacular of personal symbols. Rocks from the surrounding mountains and desert are placed in specific relation to one another, the correlation between the objects, how the rocks are positioned to work and resonate off each other to create a kind of morphic field within the gallery space. The sculptural installation operates as a microcosm of the universe—composed of many elements that appear as a unified mass when viewed from a distance but can all be broken down and reshaped over time. The structure is built with the inevitability of decomposition—loosely bound sand as a medium will not last. Nature, time, and chance are Garrard’s collaborators.

Using natural elements to visualize the vast spiritual archetypal energetic field that is manifest through out material phenomena, Garrard grounds her vision of hyperspace within the natural world.

- Samantha Ozer