Dust #33, 34, 35, 36

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Dust #33, 34, 35, 36

Artist Rebecca Louise Law (British, born 1981)

Date2019

Dimensions61 × 36 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (154.9 × 93.3 × 3.8 cm)

MediumFloral dust swept from the floor of "Community" encased in flat glass (four panels)

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number

2019.70A-D

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02A, Wolfe

DescriptionFour panels hinged together, comprised of floral dust encased within panes of glass.

Label TextPassionate about natural change and preservation, Rebecca Louise Law allows her work to evolve as nature takes its course, offering an alternative concept of beauty that embraces both holding on and letting go. Dust #33 serves as an archival documentation of Community, Law's immersive and ephemeral site-specific installation of hanging flowers. For Community, on view at the Toledo Museum of Art from June 2018 to January 2019, Law transformed the Canaday Gallery into a delight for the senses. The exhibition consisted of more than 520,000 flowers suspended from the ceiling as cascading garlands carefully strung together by local community volunteers. Entwined into Community were flowers from Law’s collection of dried European plants and flowers, along with some 10,000 floral elements grown in Toledo, including some foraged from the Museum’s campus. Preserving and reusing the floral remnants of her installations are an important component of Law’s artistic practice. Dust #33 incorporates the dried remnants of Community that were shed over the course of the exhibition. This flower “dust” was encased in glass panes at the TMA Glass Pavilion during Law’s Glass Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) residency in 2019, after the exhibition closed.