Michael E. Smith

In Untitled, a used door (from a house in Providence) has been cut into a shape that evokes a cloud or a landscape or seascape, with a pigeon encased in plastic completing one of the door’s contours. Smith’s ongoing practice combines widely varied objects and materials, enabling radically new ways to understand worldly phenomena. This sculpture encourages us to address its individual components, while the assemblage as a whole prompts consideration of our increasingly complicated relationships to natural and built environments, if not objects themselves.