Anthony Horta 
Boundaries 2018-2019

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My goal is not to create a finished work of art, but rather to set in motion a process that will live beyond my control. With this in mind, I draw on the tradition of the found object and assemblage, using common materials and living matter. The emergent forms embody a history, a sense of spirit, and serve as a metaphor for the human experience.

 

Boundaries uses rice and beans, a quintessential staple of Latin culture, to remark on the polarizing rhetoric of our time. Grounded in the qualities of time and process, the work explores the transformation of organic matter and the synthetic boundaries created through the juxtaposition of rice and beans. These boundaries suggest questions of land ownership, transformation and manipulation, while providing a metaphor for the borders we create between ourselves and the environment, the land and the food we consume, and between the forces of nature and the power we assume over it. These boundaries are both true and artificial in their illusion of control.