Canell employs gravity, entropy, and chance to shape her sculptures. She operates in the border regions of perception, using ephemeral materials like heat, electricity, gas, wood, and water as her design medium to stage invisible or inaudible phenomena. Her intent is not to create fixed objects but rather initiate a process; neon tubes bending under the influence of the force of gravity, steam describing ephemeral shapes, moisture hardening a cement block.

The work,Treetops, Hillsides and Ditches(2011), is composed of wood log with a viscous mass, nothing other than raw chicle, oozing slowly over them and down to the floor. The chicle, a compact mass perched on the top of the upright logs at the beginning of the exhibition, soon develops folds from the pull of gravity and begins flowing down, circumnavigating protruding nails; events that have not only geographic references, but also corporal and existential ones as well. The movement is so slow that it can only be perceived over intervals of time. One has to look away and then back again to see the difference.

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