JUNE WOEST
  • My Why
  • I See Land
  • Weather Gear
  • Aerial Photos
  • Colored Glass
  • Longing to Travel
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
  • My Why
  • I See Land
  • Weather Gear
  • Aerial Photos
  • Colored Glass
  • Longing to Travel
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
JUNE WOEST

Waiting for it to End

by June Woest and Mari Omori, 2013
​Diverseworks, Houston, TX
About the Project

L'esprit de L'escalier, is a french phrase, translated by Mari Omori and June Woest to mean "in the spirit of an escalator".  The collaboration emphasizes the never ending horizon where the appearance of earth and sky intersect.  The work is an indoor landscape for the construction of memories and regrets. Materials included a massage table, wet clay, 07mm plastic, duct tape, carpet squares, and looping video footage.

Curator's Statement

by Rachel Cook
 
An exhibition featuring works by members of the DiverseWorks Artist Board L’esprit de l’escalier, and their collaborators.  It is a French pun translated idiomatically as “staircase wit,” refers to the inevitable situation of finding oneself thinking of the perfect comeback to an argument too late. The retort, when removed from the context of its original instigation, has a tendency to lose its potency leading to incidences of regret and remorse. Through a wide variety of artistic strategies, the DiverseWorks Artist Board grapples with how words, events, or objects become dislocated or removed from their original context. The title provides the artists with a loose framework for the creation of new work (or the re-presentation of existing work) for this exhibition which includes objects, text-works, moving image pieces, and a series of performative and literary events.

Diverseworks Website Info

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L’esprit de L’escalier

Artist Board Members & Exhibition Collaborators

Diverseworks Artist Board Members included in this exhibition are Lucinda Cobley, Sasha Dela, Lydia Hance, Trenton Doyle Hancock, John Harvey, Maria Cristina Jadick, Courtney D. Jones, Eric Leshinsky, Gabriel Martinez, Lynne McCabe, Katrina Moorhead, Gene Morgan, Mari Omori, Otabenga Jones & Associates (Jamal Cyrus and Robert A. Pruitt, Aaron Parazette, Leslie Scates, Hélène Schlumberger, Kellye Sanford, Kelly Sears, and Damon Smith, along with collaborators Nick Hennies, Sandy Ewen, Zach Moser, jhon r. stronks, and June Woest.
Video footage showing on the wall behind the massage table. 
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