thanielionleeart - Text Sculptures

2013 - Ongoing

[01] A wall of black silence

[02] An object too big to touch the walls

[03] Off-white emptiness

[04] 4 objects floating between 3 objects sinking

[05] A hollow object filled to the brim with golden light

[06] Light emanating from a shallow hole constructed within a void of endless quiet

[07] A glowing object containing neither weight nor volume oscillating within a room of illuminated shadows

[08] An object constructed purely to hide a mistake

[09] A wall so long that it becomes a loop

[10] A small black sphere so dark that even shadows retreat into the gravity of its wake

[11] A black so dark that it glows

[12] A bucket of laughter held within a shallow pool of sorrow

[13] A hole deep enough to hold all of the nothing

[14] A monument so massive that the earth becomes its base

[15] A pile of something to counterweight everything

[16] Iron casts of the negative space held within silenced mouths

[17] Physical space set aside for lingering emotions

[18] A pedestal big enough to place a mountain upon

[19] A cup of heavy air

[20] A plaster cast of a sculpture based on a photograph of a drawing of a painting based on a poem that referenced a song about a blind woman describing her long-dead lover's eyes

[21] Water saturated to the point of becoming as solid as melted stone

[22] A cube of air suspended within a sphere centered on top a cylinder of spinning light

[23] A box of crimson silence

[24] A field of vertical movement suspended behind a humming curtain of deep slumber

[25] An object containing neither memory nor past

[26] A deep forest of evergreen cones surrounded by red velvet ropes of limber tongues awaiting the relief of

morning dew

[27] A house made of ambergris

[28] Fragmented glass floating above dark waters, surrounded by nothing but shimmering light

[29] A wall balanced upon a hill as tall as a mountain of mole hills, constructed to withstand everything as long as necessary and not a second longer

[30] A list of the lengths of time it takes for a man to forget his own daughter's name

[31] Circles of light suspended within a warm pool of sweat collected from the brows of mothers

[32] A rigid plane, bleeding into a ridge of swollen eyes encrusted shut by golden sleep

[33] A solid spear of light projected through a room filled with translucent roses that are the color of the lips of virgins

[34] Orchid walls beneath lilies dyed olivine by suffering artists seeking fixes of pure white light

[35] A smooth black stone slid between the gap contained within the small of the back of a woman so pale that one can see her heartbeat

[36] Monuments constructed of nothing, dedicated to everything

[37] A requiem for a two-legged mammal contained within a chamber without doors

[38] An analog recording of the silence contained between every song recorded between june/13th/1976 and june/ 13th /1983

[39] A 20-mile line of stones surrounding a pit deep enough to contain nothing but dust

[40] A room filled to waist level with black water so cold that it could stop the movement of lungs

[41] Light shining onto a single grain of sand centered within a smoke-filled room

[42] A wall of spinning ash collapsing into a golden field of freshly harvested grain

[43] A silent hill of oval-faced dolls constructed out of wood and ivory

[44] Wheels made of music turning at the speed of shadows encased in a box of wood slats held together with lead nails and glue containing the spit of children

[45] A young child reading the bible at the rate of one word a day

[46] A one-thousand-page book stitched together with thread made of the hair of people who died before they could see the sun

[47] A faux marble ceiling embedded with balls the size of giant squid eyes, glowing a light so dim that even the dead feel blind

[48] A vessel so tall that one cannot see the top or read the silent inscription written within

[49] A basin emptied of both water and use

[50] A warm, dark room constructed of mirrors containing one thousand lightning bugs

[51] A collection of 1000 cheap useful objects transformed into expensive objects that contain no use or value

[52] A circle of deep crimson cubes surrounding a 10,000 ft pillar of hot off white light burning a hole into the sky

[53] A turning cube of cyan roses tumbling down a hill of frozen pink light

[54] Soft static emanating from a valley surrounded by mountains constructed out of solid night

[55] A painting of the nothingness contained between the letters in holy text

[56] A pillar of distant starlight

[57] A collection of objects small enough to fit between two atoms

[58] A pool of still water centered inside a room constructed out of boxes of shimmering stillness

[59] An object built to be destroyed by the weight of its own reflection

[60] A structure built to contain all of the thoughts we refuse to think

[61] A silence so thick that it glows

[62] An empty field surrounding a mass of iron floating within a pond of warm analog hiss

[63] A tattered moment of silence

[64] A place by the sea that is far away from the shore

[65] A nameless thing that puts everything in context

[66] A falling object suspended by its own will

[67] A slit in the floor that's also a crack in the ceiling

[68] A smoldering pit where once a building stood

[69] A field of snow punctuated by pillars of ash

[70] A box built to hold nothing but silence

[71] A land with neither borders or horizon

[72] A poem to be unwritten by the reader

[73] Something cheap that no one can afford to keep

[74] A murder of salty, wet shoulders

[75] Shifting plains of colorless voids

[76] A field of virgin snow white silk awaits messy child hands.

[77] A meaningless gesture given power through delicate depiction in marble and stone

[78] A grid of white objects placed upon a deep red stage

[79] 4 gold markers placed around a shallow grave

[80] An object in which nothing but its documentation exists

[81] A collection of boxes filled with concrete molds of the spaces between infant hands

[82] 6 million beautiful vessels reduced to sullen ash

[83] A room filled to the floor with white hot air

[84] Something large enough to fill the cracks in the sky

[85] Sun bleached photos of memories

[86] Diaries of suburban youth transcribed into Morse code and sent into space

[87] A cassette containing the unaltered voice of God

[88] A spinning ball of molten lead suspended in the corner of a room constructed of beeswax and cardboard

[89] An endless wall

[90] A place to put the suffering

[91] A place without light or darkness

[92] An object surrounded by its inability to reflect light

[93] A place built by mothers as a way to explain death to a small child

[95] Clouds of slowly shifting debris hovered over the black hole that was once its home

[96] Soft focus wind collected under shadows left behind by passing red cars

[97] A lavender field of violets swaying beneath a sky constructed out of molten blue sundry

[98] A pile of rusting steel silently buckling under the weight of its own decay

[99] A document containing the time it would take 100,000 ants to move a herd of dead elephants 1000 miles

[100] A diamond-coated memory

[101] A slow and steady erosion of everything depicted in the written word

[102] A cassette recording of the sound of a burning record containing a recording of something unknown.

[103] An endless loop of amplified silence held together with mud and wasp spit

[104] A collection of fake IDs confiscated from every suburban teenage girl living in Kentucky

[105] Porcelain-skinned children buried beneath wet black soil containing a young sapling forest

[106] Millions of outstretched hands grasping towards distant stars

[107] A language constructed out of pure color and simple shapes

[108] A neon green specter floating above a blood red sea

[109] Residue left behind by passing souls collected into silver offering plates and made into ink

[110] The blackest white one can make without becoming grey

[111] The miracle that is every heartbeat treated with the same reverence as Jesus in toast

[112] Something that dismembers the stars like a butcher renders down a deer

[113] Hard light bouncing off soft tan skin

[114] Silver shadows

[115] The scent of sweat distilled and stored within shallow jars

[116] The point in which a pole becomes a tree

[117] A line of light circling a line of silence suspended within an oval room

[118] A drawing constructed out of the tattered line between the real and the imagined

[119] The shimmering sound of distant chimes reflecting off still water

[120] The weight of memories on the shoulders of man

[121] A place in no need of location, or hold on land or map

[122] A small book containing a list of small wounds earned through determination

[123] A small thing enlarged into a big thing made out of smaller things

[124] The sound of one heart cell throbbing amplified to the point of madness

[125] What is left after the residue has been wiped away by the immortal maid, that is, time

[126] Everything necessary to build a bomb made into vapor

[127] Photographs of children playing in the sun hung upon walls of concrete and lead

[128] A monument separated from view and the sunlight of history

[129] An unstrikeable hammer

[130] A place without a people to claim it

[131] A line in the sand heading nowhere

[132] The first words sung by infants, carved into stone and read aloud by scholars

[133] A large, unstoppable nothing

[134] A plane of swollen moments made heavy by the passing of time

[135] Another slumbering pile

[136] A child's toy made out of conjecture and meaningless gestures, placed upon a table for all to surrender

[137] A small, brief moment photographed and enlarged to galactic scale

[138] Something constructed to be entered from beneath and exited from the center

[139] A red line wrapping around the lungs of motherless land

[140] A red splice of a yellow sky

[141] The mangled remains of concrete boxes surrounding a hole filled with what was once a bag containing a soul

[142] A slumbering mass of static transmitting a signal to parts unknown

[143] An empty cylinder made of gold so thin you can look through it like it was well-cleaned glass awaiting the sacrifice of young birds

[144] Layers upon layers of static reduced to dusty moments of cloud-like stillness

[145] Reducing a complex language into armless gestures and stone-faced expressions

[146] A young bleeding second of unmeasurable bliss

[147] A pause, inserted into the melting mouth of the ocean

[148] A glow so faint that only the deaf can see its light

[149] A bullet placed firmly into skin

[150] Something so small that it can fit in the hand of a zygote

[151] A light that casts a shadow

[152] A monument to unmoving tongues

[153] A unbroken line that traces a path between every star visible by the naked eye

[154] A moment captured in fine wine and warm soup

[155] Lubricated walls of finely polished marble skin, between which nothing but animals play

[156] The border between two bodies of water

[157] A way to capture shadows

[158] A monument to emptiness that takes up no space

[159] A way marked by a path not yet walked upon

[160] A line drawn on moving water

[161] A hall leading to a room contained within a building surrounded by a field of flowering violence

[162] A cube of air cold enough to fill a basement knee deep

[163] A moment of sleep placed underneath a head of corn and allowed to seep between the kernels

[164] A walled-in room construct for neither use or substance

[165] A silver field of wilted ash placed between two golden walls of light

[166] An empty place filled with solidified silence

[167] A humming moment of organized destruction

[168] A blank page filled with everything unspoken, unread, and undone

[169] A figure without mass or light sitting upon a chair constructed out of memories of liquid night

[170] An iron cone of absolute silence rusting underneath a storm of falling breath

[171] The moments between moments encased in resin and set upon a shelf in a small child's room

[172] A silver cast of deep yellow nothingness

[173] A bright red sunset placed above a chasm of sullen off-white shadows

[175] A soft velvet space translated into solid stone

[176] An opening that is also a closing

[177] A solid gold diamond buried beneath 1000 layers of ancient Coptic dust

[178] The placement of 4 lead balls set in the corners of a pyramid

[179] A walled-in garden encircled by packs of tired, hungry dogs

[180] An atmosphere constructed out of nothing but the vaporised memories of the caresses of past lovers

[181] A liquid second

[182] A small object expanded to fill an infinitely shrinking space

[183] A place in which not even the wind is brave enough to go

[184] An alloy designed to be crushed by infant hands

[185] The separation of the skin from the bone documented in full color glory for all to hear

[186] A diagram of heaven drawn by newly skeletal hands

[187] A pile of heavy silence hidden under box spring beds and unwashed prom dresses

[188] A dark burning figure falling beneath the horizon

[189] A needle cutting stone into dust

[190] The sun reduced to its core, and allowed to wander the solar system unchained

[191] An object placed atop another object that has been placed beneath a red symbol of night

[192] A program programmed to program the programmers program

[193] White noise dyed ash black

[194] A box of dried blood used to contain unspoken secrets

[195] A stringless violin playing Mozart at ear-bleeding volume by fingerless hands

[196] A natural sculpture reduced to stone by chisels and hands

[197] The moment in which air becomes heavy enough to hold in your hands

[198] A long hole filled to the brim with glowing red embers of burning sight

[199] A question that contains its own answer

[200] An unexplored wilderness hidden within frequently used school yards

[201] Claim ownership of the horizon

[202] White noise dyed black with reason

[203] Five red lines leading to seven places without bending, curving, or stopping along the way

[204] An eight-walled room containing nine pillars constructed out of virgin light

[205] Squid ink deluded with milk and used to rewrite every love poem ever penned by school girls' hands

[206] A painting painted without the need for meaning or context.

[207] A book of babble and slurs translated into Morse code and smoke signals

[208] A recording of pure, clear air transferred into MIDI notes to be played by 5 mellowtrons underwater

[209] A song of adipocere

[210] A one-stone rock wall

[211] A tall bloom of yellow smoke fading into a cold night sky and becoming shards of falling glass and slender bodies.

[212] A moment as sacred as a dead child's room

[213] Short hellos give birth to long goodbyes

[214] We become the soil upon which we stand

[215] The Weight Of Unspoken Secrets Turns Hearts Into Diamonds

[216] Silence murders thought

2013 - Ongoing
[01] A wall of black silence
[02] An object too big to touch the walls
[03] Off-white emptiness
[04] 4 objects floating between 3 objects sinking
[05] A hollow object filled to the brim with golden light
[06] Light emanating from a shallow hole constructed within a void of endless quiet
[07] A glowing object containing neither weight nor volume oscillating within a room of illuminated shadows
[08] An object constructed purely to hide a mistake
[09] A wall so long that it becomes a loop
[10] A small black sphere so dark that even shadows retreat into the gravity of its wake
[11] A black so dark that it glows
[12] A bucket of laughter held within a shallow pool of sorrow
[13] A hole deep enough to hold all of the nothing
[14] A monument so massive that the earth becomes its base
[15] A pile of something to counterweight everything
[16] Iron casts of the negative space held within silenced mouths
[17] Physical space set aside for lingering emotions
[18] A pedestal big enough to place a mountain upon
[19] A cup of heavy air
[20] A plaster cast of a sculpture based on a photograph of a drawing of a painting based on a poem that referenced a song about a blind woman describing her long-dead lover's eyes
[21] Water saturated to the point of becoming as solid as melted stone
[22] A cube of air suspended within a sphere centered on top a cylinder of spinning light
[23] A box of crimson silence
[24] A field of vertical movement suspended behind a humming curtain of deep slumber
[25] An object containing neither memory nor past
[26] A deep forest of evergreen cones surrounded by red velvet ropes of limber tongues awaiting the relief of morning dew
[27] A house made of ambergris
[28] Fragmented glass floating above dark waters, surrounded by nothing but shimmering light
[29] A wall balanced upon a hill as tall as a mountain of mole hills, constructed to withstand everything as long as necessary and not a second longer
[30] A list of the lengths of time it takes for a man to forget his own daughter's name
[31] Circles of light suspended within a warm pool of sweat collected from the brows of mothers
[32] A rigid plane, bleeding into a ridge of swollen eyes encrusted shut by golden sleep
[33] A solid spear of light projected through a room filled with translucent roses that are the color of the lips of virgins
[34] Orchid walls beneath lilies dyed olivine by suffering artists seeking fixes of pure white light
[35] A smooth black stone slid between the gap contained within the small of the back of a woman so pale that one can see her heartbeat
[36] Monuments constructed of nothing, dedicated to everything
[37] A requiem for a two-legged mammal contained within a chamber without doors
[38] An analog recording of the silence contained between every song recorded between june/13th/1976 and june/ 13th /1983
[39] A 20-mile line of stones surrounding a pit deep enough to contain nothing but dust
[40] A room filled to waist level with black water so cold that it could stop the movement of lungs
[41] Light shining onto a single grain of sand centered within a smoke-filled room
[42] A wall of spinning ash collapsing into a golden field of freshly harvested grain
[43] A silent hill of oval-faced dolls constructed out of wood and ivory
[44] Wheels made of music turning at the speed of shadows encased in a box of wood slats held together with lead nails and glue containing the spit of children
[45] A young child reading the bible at the rate of one word a day
[46] A one-thousand-page book stitched together with thread made of the hair of people who died before they could see the sun
[47] A faux marble ceiling embedded with balls the size of giant squid eyes, glowing a light so dim that even the dead feel blind
[48] A vessel so tall that one cannot see the top or read the silent inscription written within
[49] A basin emptied of both water and use
[50] A warm, dark room constructed of mirrors containing one thousand lightning bugs
[51] A collection of 1000 cheap useful objects transformed into expensive objects that contain no use or value
[52] A circle of deep crimson cubes surrounding a 10,000 ft pillar of hot off white light burning a hole into the sky
[53] A turning cube of cyan roses tumbling down a hill of frozen pink light
[54] Soft static emanating from a valley surrounded by mountains constructed out of solid night
[55] A painting of the nothingness contained between the letters in holy text
[56] A pillar of distant starlight
[57] A collection of objects small enough to fit between two atoms
[58] A pool of still water centered inside a room constructed out of boxes of shimmering stillness
[59] An object built to be destroyed by the weight of its own reflection
[60] A structure built to contain all of the thoughts we refuse to think
[61] A silence so thick that it glows
[62] An empty field surrounding a mass of iron floating within a pond of warm analog hiss
[63] A tattered moment of silence
[64] A place by the sea that is far away from the shore
[65] A nameless thing that puts everything in context
[66] A falling object suspended by its own will
[67] A slit in the floor that's also a crack in the ceiling
[68] A smoldering pit where once a building stood
[69] A field of snow punctuated by pillars of ash
[70] A box built to hold nothing but silence
[71] A land with neither borders or horizon
[72] A poem to be unwritten by the reader
[73] Something cheap that no one can afford to keep
[74] A murder of salty, wet shoulders
[75] Shifting plains of colorless voids
[76] A field of virgin snow white silk awaits messy child hands.
[77] A meaningless gesture given power through delicate depiction in marble and stone
[78] A grid of white objects placed upon a deep red stage
[79] 4 gold markers placed around a shallow grave
[80] An object in which nothing but its documentation exists
[81] A collection of boxes filled with concrete molds of the spaces between infant hands
[82] 6 million beautiful vessels reduced to sullen ash
[83] A room filled to the floor with white hot air
[84] Something large enough to fill the cracks in the sky
[85] Sun bleached photos of memories
[86] Diaries of suburban youth transcribed into Morse code and sent into space
[87] A cassette containing the unaltered voice of God
[88] A spinning ball of molten lead suspended in the corner of a room constructed of beeswax and cardboard
[89] An endless wall
[90] A place to put the suffering
[91] A place without light or darkness
[92] An object surrounded by its inability to reflect light
[93] A place built by mothers as a way to explain death to a small child
[95] Clouds of slowly shifting debris hovered over the black hole that was once its home
[96] Soft focus wind collected under shadows left behind by passing red cars
[97] A lavender field of violets swaying beneath a sky constructed out of molten blue sundry
[98] A pile of rusting steel silently buckling under the weight of its own decay
[99] A document containing the time it would take 100,000 ants to move a herd of dead elephants 1000 miles
[100] A diamond-coated memory
[101] A slow and steady erosion of everything depicted in the written word
[102] A cassette recording of the sound of a burning record containing a recording of something unknown.
[103] An endless loop of amplified silence held together with mud and wasp spit
[104] A collection of fake IDs confiscated from every suburban teenage girl living in Kentucky
[105] Porcelain-skinned children buried beneath wet black soil containing a young sapling forest
[106] Millions of outstretched hands grasping towards distant stars
[107] A language constructed out of pure color and simple shapes
[108] A neon green specter floating above a blood red sea
[109] Residue left behind by passing souls collected into silver offering plates and made into ink
[110] The blackest white one can make without becoming grey
[111] The miracle that is every heartbeat treated with the same reverence as Jesus in toast
[112] Something that dismembers the stars like a butcher renders down a deer
[113] Hard light bouncing off soft tan skin
[114] Silver shadows
[115] The scent of sweat distilled and stored within shallow jars
[116] The point in which a pole becomes a tree
[117] A line of light circling a line of silence suspended within an oval room
[118] A drawing constructed out of the tattered line between the real and the imagined
[119] The shimmering sound of distant chimes reflecting off still water
[120] The weight of memories on the shoulders of man
[121] A place in no need of location, or hold on land or map
[122] A small book containing a list of small wounds earned through determination
[123] A small thing enlarged into a big thing made out of smaller things
[124] The sound of one heart cell throbbing amplified to the point of madness
[125] What is left after the residue has been wiped away by the immortal maid, that is, time
[126] Everything necessary to build a bomb made into vapor
[127] Photographs of children playing in the sun hung upon walls of concrete and lead
[128] A monument separated from view and the sunlight of history
[129] An unstrikeable hammer
[130] A place without a people to claim it
[131] A line in the sand heading nowhere
[132] The first words sung by infants, carved into stone and read aloud by scholars
[133] A large, unstoppable nothing
[134] A plane of swollen moments made heavy by the passing of time
[135] Another slumbering pile
[136] A child's toy made out of conjecture and meaningless gestures, placed upon a table for all to surrender
[137] A small, brief moment photographed and enlarged to galactic scale
[138] Something constructed to be entered from beneath and exited from the center
[139] A red line wrapping around the lungs of motherless land
[140] A red splice of a yellow sky
[141] The mangled remains of concrete boxes surrounding a hole filled with what was once a bag containing a soul
[142] A slumbering mass of static transmitting a signal to parts unknown
[143] An empty cylinder made of gold so thin you can look through it like it was well-cleaned glass awaiting the sacrifice of young birds
[144] Layers upon layers of static reduced to dusty moments of cloud-like stillness
[145] Reducing a complex language into armless gestures and stone-faced expressions
[146] A young bleeding second of unmeasurable bliss
[147] A pause, inserted into the melting mouth of the ocean
[148] A glow so faint that only the deaf can see its light
[149] A bullet placed firmly into skin
[150] Something so small that it can fit in the hand of a zygote
[151] A light that casts a shadow
[152] A monument to unmoving tongues
[153] A unbroken line that traces a path between every star visible by the naked eye
[154] A moment captured in fine wine and warm soup
[155] Lubricated walls of finely polished marble skin, between which nothing but animals play
[156] The border between two bodies of water
[157] A way to capture shadows
[158] A monument to emptiness that takes up no space
[159] A way marked by a path not yet walked upon
[160] A line drawn on moving water
[161] A hall leading to a room contained within a building surrounded by a field of flowering violence
[162] A cube of air cold enough to fill a basement knee deep
[163] A moment of sleep placed underneath a head of corn and allowed to seep between the kernels
[164] A walled-in room construct for neither use or substance
[165] A silver field of wilted ash placed between two golden walls of light
[166] An empty place filled with solidified silence
[167] A humming moment of organized destruction
[168] A blank page filled with everything unspoken, unread, and undone
[169] A figure without mass or light sitting upon a chair constructed out of memories of liquid night
[170] An iron cone of absolute silence rusting underneath a storm of falling breath
[171] The moments between moments encased in resin and set upon a shelf in a small child's room
[172] A silver cast of deep yellow nothingness
[173] A bright red sunset placed above a chasm of sullen off-white shadows
[175] A soft velvet space translated into solid stone
[176] An opening that is also a closing
[177] A solid gold diamond buried beneath 1000 layers of ancient Coptic dust
[178] The placement of 4 lead balls set in the corners of a pyramid
[179] A walled-in garden encircled by packs of tired, hungry dogs
[180] An atmosphere constructed out of nothing but the vaporised memories of the caresses of past lovers
[181] A liquid second
[182] A small object expanded to fill an infinitely shrinking space
[183] A place in which not even the wind is brave enough to go
[184] An alloy designed to be crushed by infant hands
[185] The separation of the skin from the bone documented in full color glory for all to hear
[186] A diagram of heaven drawn by newly skeletal hands
[187] A pile of heavy silence hidden under box spring beds and unwashed prom dresses
[188] A dark burning figure falling beneath the horizon
[189] A needle cutting stone into dust
[190] The sun reduced to its core, and allowed to wander the solar system unchained
[191] An object placed atop another object that has been placed beneath a red symbol of night
[192] A program programmed to program the programmers program
[193] White noise dyed ash black
[194] A box of dried blood used to contain unspoken secrets
[195] A stringless violin playing Mozart at ear-bleeding volume by fingerless hands
[196] A natural sculpture reduced to stone by chisels and hands
[197] The moment in which air becomes heavy enough to hold in your hands
[198] A long hole filled to the brim with glowing red embers of burning sight
[199] A question that contains its own answer
[200] An unexplored wilderness hidden within frequently used school yards
[201] Claim ownership of the horizon
[202] White noise dyed black with reason
[203] Five red lines leading to seven places without bending, curving, or stopping along the way
[204] An eight-walled room containing nine pillars constructed out of virgin light
[205] Squid ink deluded with milk and used to rewrite every love poem ever penned by school girls' hands
[206] A painting painted without the need for meaning or context.
[207] A book of babble and slurs translated into Morse code and smoke signals
[208] A recording of pure, clear air transferred into MIDI notes to be played by 5 mellowtrons underwater
[209] A song of adipocere
[210] A one-stone rock wall
[211] A tall bloom of yellow smoke fading into a cold night sky and becoming shards of falling glass and slender bodies.
[212] A moment as sacred as a dead child's room
[213] Short hellos give birth to long goodbyes
[214] We become the soil upon which we stand
[215] The Weight Of Unspoken Secrets Turns Hearts Into Diamonds
[216] Silence murders thought

thaniel ion lee