Publisher's Synopsis
Hardy's spells are made from the bare essentials, they are landscapes where the mind and the world meet. "Survival Spell", the eponymous earthwork, is a curve of dirt on the floor, a gestural sweep that holds within and without its earthy-boundaries once-purposeful fragments. It sits awaiting disturbance, a clumsy foot would undo everything. Somehow it creates a field of energy that pushes back its observers with tenderness. "Survival Spell" was made during the artist's 2022 residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas - a place where the light and horizon feel limitless, a one-crossroads town at the edges of the United States and the desert.
