Aug 13, 2010

Threads - Portland Building Installation

Threads
Installation by Gloria Lamson

Everything changes.
Structures and frameworks fall apart and come together;
relationships begin and end, shift and transform.
Our vision of what we want is challenged by the actuality of what is.
I question how we find our way amidst the confusion
of shifting ground within and around us.
How does new life grow out of broken forms of the past?
What is important now? What is needed?
What can be, a next step?
I imagine our questions circle us around the dark unknowing
to stir new realities into being.
And in this process fresh vision and form begin to grow.
In the words of William Stafford,
The Way It Is
There's a thread you follow.
It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.
William Stafford

For more information use link below.
http://www.racc.org/public-art/threads-installation-artist-gloria-lamson-portland-building-august-9-%E2%80%93-september-3-2010

This installation through September 3 (6pm)
Viewing hours: 7 am to 6 pm, Monday – Friday. The Portland Building is located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland. For more information and a website that provides images, proposals and statements of all the Portland Building installations featured since 1994 go to http://racc.org/public-art/installation-space or call the installation space project manager
Keith Lachowicz at 503-823-5404.