Initially my proposal included a live element (an ant farm). In deciding to source locally, I found one queen ant in nuptial flight, but she did not result in the beginnings of a colony. I had planned the windshield to be red plexiglass, as ants can't see red light. I imagined viewing them so that they would feel comfortable, and seemingly underground. Moving forward with custom building an ant farm for this project would require further funding. I'm still interested in involving plants and animals into my artwork.
The windshield ant farm was intended to contain a sculpted quote by Tennessee Williams.
“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that’s dynamic and expressive. That’s what’s good for you if you’re at all serious in your aims. William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life – live!” That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, Loss, Loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition”
–Tennessee Williams.
