This work operates on these three conditions simultaneously or sequentially but only when put into perspective by the presence of the visitor. Insubstantial walls serve to distinguish outside or inside, far or near, up or down, inside or outside and close or closer. Context changes scale from monumental to individual and back in a single breath.
Joan Edlis graduated with a BFA in industrial design and practiced for over twenty years before re-focusing on a variance of land art, object-based sculpture merging with architectural form and landscape design. Her intent is to re-engage participants with the natural world."
Jaqueline Murphy, Curator, Royal British Society of Sculptors
http://www.le.ac.uk/press/artists/sculpture.pdf
"In the Botanic Gardens at Leicester, forty two artists from different generations have created sculptures to be sited in this tranquil setting while others have responded to the surroundings, some including objects found on the site... American artist Joan Edlis, has created connecting cylindrical rooms of willow rods that allow visitors to enter and, like Alice in Wonderland, experience shifts in spatial dimensions.
Sculpture in the Garden is at the Harold Martin Botanic Gardens, University of Leicester from 9 July – 26 September 2005 and is open every day 10 – 4."
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/culture___sport/archives/2005/work_in_progress.cfm
