Gallery. Museum. Public park. Those are the places we expect to find art. Malia Jensen’s Nearer Nature: Worth Your Salt defies expectation and brings art down to earth, among the people — and animals, too. Through the end of December, the project is on display at a feed store in Redmond and a bar in Maupin, among other locations.
The video installations form one component of an unusual, clever, and downright funny piece. The first step involved sculpting parts of the human body, and objects representing body parts.
Jensen is a gifted sculptor who roams from medium to medium: bronze, wood, clay, polyurethane resin. For Nearer Nature, she carved sculptures out of white, high-density salt licks, the kind left in pastures for cattle to nuzzle.
