SWEET TOGETHER /// INSTALLATION OVERVIEW

Providence Art Windows is a quarter-annual event in which artists from the Providence community design window installations for various downtown businesses. This window installation, designed as a 3-D poster, speaks to the importance of community and the fragility of its structure. A sculpture of a neighborhood delicately balanced on a foundation of thin dowel rods. At the foot of the sculpture were mountains of loose sugar with hundreds of cups of sugar sprinkled throughout. The cups of sugar referred to simple, neighborly gestures that are important during the current economic struggles. The loose sugar sprawled out from the piles to spell the word “sweet.” Typographic stickers on the window surface spelled, “We are together.” An intentional space between the words “are” and “together” allowed a secondary surprise read, “we are sweet together”, at certain viewing angles.

*** This installation was a collaboration with artist and designers Melissa Small and Julia Gualtieri.

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