Rocks

Most museums say: don’t touch the art. These neoprene Rocks were made for Project 70 at the Boston Museum of Contemporary Art. They are a wry remark on things you’re not allowed to touch, but that touch you. Surprises. Rocks—true rocks—are inert, rough, hard for humans, but these are eerie, almost floating, soft, subverting expectations. The interconnections between them mean that when you squeeze one, the others inflate—when one rock is put under pressure, the other rocks push someone else, and the work literally touches people. They relate to one’s long-distance effect. I move here; and you’re moved, or nudged, or displaced.