Garden of Rockets

 

Rockets made out of household items: storage canisters, jewelry, makeup, food, cups and cans. Stacked like building blocks, nothing but gravity holds them together. A housewife’s simple distraction, her predicament and dream of breaking out.

 

Garden of Rockets (1-4), mixed media, 2005.

Sarah Gavlak and Aleksandra Mir visiting the Garden of Rockets, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 2004.

Both works exhibited at 'Bond of Love', curated by Lisa Kirk at John Connelly Presents, NYC, August 15 - September 24, 2005.


texts on Garden of Rockets:

Ammirati, Domenick, Bonds of Love, ArtForum, NYC, Sept 2005.
Finch, Charlie, What's Love Got To Do With It, artnet.com, Sept 2005.
Comer-Greene, Rachel, Bonds of Love, TimeOut Reviews, NYC, Sept 15, 2005.
Johnson, Ken, Bonds of Love, The New York Times, NYC, Sept 9, 2005.
Raingold, Jennifer, The No-Gender Agenda, Art Review, London, Aug 2005.