Installed in a dormant orchard in South Phoenix, this work was very specifically about the fragile nature of our bodies -- something the artist was very aware of having just recovered from a life changing accident.

Cocooning, it seemed, was making a safe place of ones own, a place where transformation and healing could take place. Fitting that South Mountain Respite, as it was first entitled, was installed on a plot of land where the cycle of life was always apparent. The cocoons clung to the trees to anchor themselves to the earth, and draw on its energy.

The casts were positioned with their heads to the north and feet to the south, a burial position used in many cultures to ensure safe passage to the other realms, but also a position that would have the cocoons facing the rising sun.

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