The "Levitation" refers to a phenomenal condition that is outside normal experience. It suggests weightlessness contrary to the laws of gravity as well as evoking a relaxing of psychological gravitas. This sculptural proposal transforms a common material into an encounter with the sublime. My choice of materials, industrial glass, allows for the object to contain its own dichotomy as well as to serve as a metaphor regarding a meditation on our metaphysical desires. The glass is translucent, appearing ephemeral and vulnerable, yet its physical substance is extremely strong and its weight belies its weightless appearance. The system of illumination suggests a space where the spiritual and the earthbound produce a location for a theophanic effect (where Heaven and Earth meet). This illusion of weightlessness links this moment of perceptual levitation to human morphology and the notion of spiritual transcendence.

Joseph Karoly