I start from a place of not knowing where it will lead. I try to keep my ideas as flexible as possible; my process is both intuitive and spontaneous. As shapes and patterns migrate from one piece to another, I shift and balance them, attentive to the transformations that occur as the process unfolds.

During lockdown I went to my studio as a place of refuge, working in a haphazard way, looking through old projects and rummaging through large black bags filled with materials I had picked up on Canal street or the local hardware store. Every time I reached into one of the bags I found something which brought back memories — plastic tubing, steel rods, circles of wire, an odd piece of cardboard, mostly remnants from large wall installations I made between 1993-2003. Soon I became very interested in these leftovers and started to reimagine various scraps of materials into wall sculptures intimate in scale. I began by mounting each piece slightly off the wall, which created intricate shadows that fascinated me, then improvising as I went along.

Capturing transient, fragile moments is at the heart of my work. I have always felt that process is the most important part of any creative endeavor and this has become more and more true for me in a world filled with uncertainty, chaos and loss.
-Barbara Garber