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Visually, Chris Johanson's Mountain Fortress consists of two miniature paper mache sculptures -- one of a fortress, the other, a mountain. The mountain is graffitied by a fortune cookie message -- something that makes one either rethink his relationship to mountains and fortresses, or to oneself. And like the fortune cookie, these tiny sculptures beg to be metaphorically opened, or at least examined further; a viewer can only read the saying scrawled on the mountainside by bending down to the height of the sculptures. Like when Alice swallows the contents of the "Drink Me" bottle (the shrinking/growing fluid in Lewis Carroll's, Alice in Wonderland), bending over the mountainside reaps tons of benefits: -- the element of scale and the message combine to form an ironic/iconic message, so that rising, one feels the ultimate power of our relationship to nature, buildings, and one another. Devon Dikeou |