Muskegon Museum of Art: Acquires One's-Self I Sing
One’s-Self I Sing, 2025, 180” (457 cm) x 120” (305 cm) x 48” (122 cm), glass, metal, wood, rock, polymer enhanced gypsum, paint; photo credit: PD Rearick
One’s-Self I Sing is a large-scale, site- specific installation that investigates the current moment in relation to Deep Time. The sculpture can be thought of as an “exploded” still life, a genre that holds the capacity to illuminate the ways that we understand our world through visual metaphors.
The sculpture converges both floors of the new expansion, offering visual continuity between multiple landings. Different aspects of the composition are available for discovery upon entering the museum, ascending/descending the stairs or viewing from the second floor. Objects that reference to the Muskegon Museum of Art’s permanent collection, such as a bow from Edward Hopper’s New York Restaurant and a bullseye from Whitfield Lovell’s At Home and Abroad, are incorporated in to the composition. The marriage of transparent cultural objects and opaque rock formations alludes to what is seen and known juxtaposed with what is concealed and lost over time.
Join Lipman for a lecture about One’s-Self I Sing at the museum July 17, 2025.
On view in the Bennett Schmidt Pavillion at the Muskegon Museum of Art.