May 2012

Rolled Dice and Flicked Matchsticks

With tunneled vision, its hard to determine how relatively close or distant flashing lights are. When focused on a desired outcome, the imagined ideal is projected on top of a current actuality; reality is quelled into a fading periphery.

Enter a game, a gamble or a gambit and name your stakes, place your wager and call your bet.

Through metaphoric paintings, and a psychotically charged architectural installation, Erin Bernard presents a wavering stance on the potential gains and losses of engaging in games and gambling. The figures of her paintings are unable to distinguish between their internal burning desire to continue with their gambit, and their environments’ pressing dire condition.

Rolled dice are like flicked matches: there’s a risk that bridges may be burned and stacked card house ignited. But there’s also the chance that from the ashes a fortune phoenix is born.