The Practice Ground
Red Tennis Court Clay, 4’x6’ on wood panel.
Green Tennis Court Clay, 4’x6’ on wood panel.
Video, 1 hour, content: red oil paint on tennis balls hit against a 10 foot wall.
"The Practice Ground" is a performance and artifact; drawing from my experience as a tennis pro, the work transforms contradictions I have experienced throughout my life into a sculptural meditation.
The tennis clay carries material memory for me, recalling childhood practice sessions in the heat, the meditative repetition of drills, and the love of tennis and it’s philosophical connections to life. The clay that was once the surface of competition and training, becomes a landscape of contemplation. The clay texture holds both activity versus stillness or clarity versus uncertainty.
It is a contemplative landscape; not a fixed territory, but a space defined by movement, competition and repetition.
