The Earth is Soft, Part III
Artist
Mira Burack
(American, born 1974)
Date2021
Mediumphotography collage
DimensionsSupport: 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm)
ClassificationsAssemblage
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography
Object number2025.28.1
DescriptionA collage of images of rumpled bedding in various lighting conditions, arranged in a triange.eMuseum Notes
Mira Burack uses photography, textiles, installation and communal experience to explore the phenomenology of space and the overlapping relationships between land, rest, and sleep. Drawing on the site of the bed, Burack asserts that the earth is the first and last resting place for human beings. She explores this relationship by photographing her bed linens, printing them out, and cutting the prints into fragments of pillows, blankets, and sheets. Burack then reassembles the fragments into collages that evoke surrealist landscapes or trance-like visions. The resulting artworks ask the viewer to slow down, to lose themselves in the fluidity between landscape and illusion, and to rest their minds in the work.
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