KA BOOM! site-speci fic installation
600+ hand-made, red acrylic wool pom poms; size: 30 -60 meters diameter(98 -197 feet)
Sculpture at Scenic World 2016 -Sydney; Australia
Sculpture on the Gulf 2022 -Auckland, New Zealand(watch video)
B#Side the River Festival 2022 -Gradisca d’Isonzo - Italy (watch video)
On the surface, the installation portrays a naive, playful, and cheerful narrative. However, the red signals a dark and complex history of global violence, referencing pop Art and comic illustrations, and using everyday craft materials, Ea invites a playful engagement with her work but ultimately forestalls it and urges viewers toward deeper reflection on what it is to live in the face and wake of war. The work’s stillness, poised within the tree branches as if caught in a spider’s web, is refreshing as we see global powers rushing headlong into war at enormous psychological, spiritual, and cultural costs. Ea offers an artistic armistice, hushing the clamours of conflict, she creates a moment of fraught beauty that renders those costs so apparent and so essential to protect.
