Deep Swimmers and Mountain Climbers

The ambiguous architectural forms in Stackhouse's work, whether site-specific sculptural installations or monumentally scaled paintings and drawings, suggest buildings, bridges and boats: symbols of change, the journey of life. In "Deep Swimmers and Mountain Climbers," the overlapping bridge- and boat- like structures are both powerful and fragile, bleached by sunlight in areas, fading into darkness in others. The image's metaphysical suggestion is heightened by the multiple viewpoints from which the forms are seen, as if this boat or bridge is being viewed simultaneously from both the water below and the sky above.