Axis Mundi, Black Rock City 2026
Catherine Daley — Windsor, CA

About
Lacunae II rises as two luminous stainless steel screens composed of over 2,000 hand-sanded tubes that gather, reflect, and release desert light. Openings within the structure create shifting fields of presence and absence as the forms move from a dense, ordered base into a more airy, dissolving upper reach. Set perpendicular on a shared base, the screens mark time like a sundial, casting slow, migrating shadows across the playa. At night, solar light awakens the surfaces. The title Lacunae, meaning gaps or missing spaces, reflects both the voids within the work and the human presence that completes it, bridging earth and sky.
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