Elaine Bradford & Emily Link
Summoners Cavern, 2021
Summoners Cavern is a collaborative installation by Houston-based artists Elaine Bradford and Emily Link, combining Bradford’s skillful application of crochet over taxidermy elements and Link’s soft sculpture environments.
For this immersive installation, Bradford and Link drew ready inspiration from the cavernous architecture of the Silos.
The artists share a love of the natural world, having traveled together to explore many of Texas’ cave and cavern systems, and Houston’s Waugh Bridge Bat Colony (the largest colony of Mexican free-tailed bats that resides in Texas year-round).
Reverence for these wonders cannot go uninformed by the ways that we deplete and cause them harm. The slow-moving water that creates the cave is an act of erosion. But humans erode our planet at a pace no natural process can match.
Summoners Cavern, 2021
Summoners Cavern is a collaborative installation by Houston-based artists Elaine Bradford and Emily Link, combining Bradford’s skillful application of crochet over taxidermy elements and Link’s soft sculpture environments.
For this immersive installation, Bradford and Link drew ready inspiration from the cavernous architecture of the Silos.
The artists share a love of the natural world, having traveled together to explore many of Texas’ cave and cavern systems, and Houston’s Waugh Bridge Bat Colony (the largest colony of Mexican free-tailed bats that resides in Texas year-round).
Reverence for these wonders cannot go uninformed by the ways that we deplete and cause them harm. The slow-moving water that creates the cave is an act of erosion. But humans erode our planet at a pace no natural process can match.
