Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens: Miles' Law

Miles’ Law on view at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, photo credit: Erik Kvalsvik

Miles’ Law is currently on view at Hillwood Museum, Estate and Gardens in Washington DC, once home to Marjorie Merriweather Post. Miles’ Law is a large-scale sculpture that ruminates on Rufus Miles’s phrase, ‘Where you stand depends on where you sit,’ and explores how one’s view of a situation is shaped by one’s relationship to it. In this context, it refers to Post’s deft employment of domestic rituals such as dinner parties other social functions to gently persuade disparate individuals to empathize with another point of view. 

Visually split down the center, half of the work is composed of clear glass and the other half, black glass, with each composition mirroring the other. The duality is disrupted by biomorphic forms that protrude and grow through the composition, mimicking natural growth and entropic forces.

On view June 10, 2023- January 14, 2024 in conjunction with Glass. Art. Beauty. Design. at Hillwood, Estate, Museum & Gardens.

Read the Washington Post Review here.