Sack a City Horseman 1, woven mixed metals, bamboo, copper
Sack a City Horseman 4, woven mixed metals, bamboo, copper, stainless steel
Sack a City Horseman 2 and Fallen horse of Horseman 3. woven mixed metals, bamboo
Sack a City Horse Fetlock and Hoof armor detail. Stainless steel, rivets
Aerial of Sack a City installation at the Newhouse Gallery of Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Sack A City installation, front view with downed horseman. Photos by Mary Bachmann
Sack A City installation 3/4 view with downed knight in foreground. woven steel, copper, bamboo, fishing line, steel rod, wire rope, turnbuckles.
Sack a City making of --my rigorous rigger. We hung nylon fishing line from wire rope filling the cubic area in a grid-like pattern to make hanging the fragments like sculpting in space.
Sack a City- Looking up through a horseman's body parts to a shattered helmet.
Sack a City Horseman helmet aimed at the sky-lit dome.
Sack A City was a clashing installation of 4 gigantic medieval jousting horsemen suspended as interactive puppets at the Newhouse Gallery of Snug Harbor Cultural Center, on Staten Island. Viewers could manipulate the oversized gauntlets and spears, look up through the fragmented armor parts and imagine spent missile silos, female breast plates and phallic suggestions.
Photos by Mary Bachmann