BETWEEN SILENCES
A Collaborative Installation of Sculpture and Sound
by Gerri Sayler and Robert Dickow

Creation myths often begin with a murky formlessness, which slowly coalesce into forms we know as bodies, trees and planets. These tales echo or mirror the life of a caterpillar, dissolving into a viscous stew of disembodied parts before emerging from its chrysalis to begin anew as a butterfly.  Nature’s endless, undulating continuum—birth and death, order and chaos, form and formlessness—encompasses all times of being. In the words of the poet Archibald MacLeish:

  There is no dusk to be
  there is no dawn that was. 

Like the body of Earth, we grow and decay simultaneously as each instant of time passes through us.  Human existence itself is a mere speck etched into infinity.  Abstract and ambiguous, these timescapes reside in a metaphysical territory that is both ancient and modern, strange yet familiar, not known but remembered.  The work might read as a story we know—the miracle of eternity.

                —Gerri Sayler, Moscow, Idaho