Katy Stone's Little Universe (Burst Boom Bloom)
Anyone who’s ever set foot in Spoonbar has surely been struck by the luminous explosion of yellow on rough concrete walls. From afar, these bursts of color almost look like lichen, rounding the corner from bar to dining room. Take several steps forward and they look more like dandelions or daisies dancing in the wind. But up close, that’s when the details snap into focus. The delicate brush strokes of acrylic paint on archival film. The pins that suspend each individual piece in air. The way a summer breeze breathes movement and life into it all. This is Katy Stone’s aptly named “Little Universe (Burst Boom Bloom).”
Upon first hearing about the piece, before it exploded on our walls, my first instinct was to film the installation for this blog. But then little realities set in. Like the fact that curator Svea Lin Soll’s installation would take eight hours. So rather than knock you out with somniferous footage of an extremely tedious process, we captured it in time-lapse photography. Local snapshooter Ace, Craig Clement, took some 4000 photographs of the installation and compressed it down to an electrifying 56 seconds. And with some luck, we persuaded indie mega-star ??????, to license his song “??????” for this clip.
We love the results. We hope you do too.
