Jane Marshing

Plenum-Touring, 2001
Jane Marsching’s site-specific installation, Plenum-Touring, references René Descartes’s hypotheses on "plenum" as the constitutive material of the heavens and spinning as the movement by which its bodies were formed. Created in response to the environment of its placement, this kinetic work includes small-scale digital prints— an array of images that have focused vision, incited dreams and charted knowledge of place from the 19th century through the 21st— designed to mimic constellations seen overhead. Including a star map of the transcontinental railroads and an audio component, the work presents a suggestive repository of evidence on notions of "travel" that entwine the local, historical, scientific and touristic imaginations.

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Jane R. Marsching’s Plenum-Touring is a CEPA Gallery commission. Courtesy of the artist.