Alice — Dane Winkler

A-L-I-C-E, '14

112" x 109" x 109"

Fabricated patina'd steel, AC motor, raw sheep wool.

This work was exhibited alongside “Setting Sail” in my 2015 solo exhibition 'Chassis' in April and May of 2015 at The Hamiltonian Gallery, DC.

In "A-L-I-C-E", an AC motor is randomly triggered on and off causing two life-sized masses of raw sheep wool to spin around an industrial crane-like object. Upon stopping the wool masses slowly hang, swinging delicately until they begin to spin again. As a very small child, I watched a butchering on the farm where I grew up of a brown Jersey cow named Alice. It was experiences like these that taught me of the relativity of life and death.

And so a secret kiss

Brings madness with the bliss

And I will think of this

When I'm dead in my grave

Set me adrift

And I'm lost

Over there

And I must be insane

To go skating on your name

And by tracing it twice

I fell through the ice

Of Alice

There's only Alice

-T.W.