Utopian Vision: Usonia
2007, painted wood
16 3/4” x 37 1/2” x 123 1/4”

Usonia’s master plan was developed by Frank Lloyd Wright, includes three of his houses, and initially functioned in many ways as a suburban commune. Wright’s original circular plots for Usonia were rejected by town administrators, and his ideal forms gave way to irregular and at times awkward compromises. Utopian Vision distills this history into a fragmented vision of layered planes. The white surfaces seem almost to levitate and suggest a quiet sense of longing. With light streaming through the circular voids, the landscape seems permeable, shifting, and above all human - complex, conflicted, and flawed.