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Dimensions: 12”x12”x12”
Material: Black glossy Plexiglas
Intervention is a black square pyramid previously installed in the Charles Allis Art Museum. Spiritualism is a religious movement in which people believed that spirits of the dead exist and have the ability to communicate with the living. Spiritualism and occult practices developed between the 1840s to the 1920s, especially within English speaking countries. Additionally Charles Allis was born in 1853 and moved into this mansion in 1911. I felt the juxtaposition of a minimal, black smooth and glossy four sided pyramid in the Charles Allis Art Museum created a enticing and mystical quality that reflected the rise of spiritualism and occult practices that occurred in the time period of the mansion.