This constellation of sixteen pieces reflects on a dilemma: failure of the marketplace of ideas.

When people — leaders, strangers, acquaintances, neighbors, friends, family members, or chat groups — cannot speak with each other, the exchange and evaluation of ideas ceases.

Shouting, refusing to speak or to listen, or even refusing to agree to disagree simply escalate the situation. In futility, relationships deteriorate, disengage, and transform into animosity.

Each of the 16 individual pieces in this installation focuses on a small ‘wall’, faded red on one side and faded blue on the other, representing core political divisions, and mounted on white and black circles, representing the stalemate of irreconcilable differences. A found or constructed object on each piece dubiously purports to somehow see, sense, communicate, or pass over or through the wall. It is wry humor about a genuine concern.