A trio of related site-specific installations incorporating metal and glass elements in balance and tension inspired by Ricardo Breceda’s Scorpion and Grasshopper sculptures.
Fay Ray engages with natural forms and industrial materials in her work, creating artworks that heighten our experience of these materials and the environments that surround us.
Scorpion/Scorpio/Scorpius, is a trio of related site-specific installations that inhabited Galleta Meadows, incorporating metal and glass elements in balance and tension inspired by Ricardo Breceda’s Scorpion and Grasshopper sculptures.
Scorpion/Scorpio/Scorpius, 2020, site-specific installation commissioned by the Under the Sun Foundation for the 2020 Candlewood Arts Festival, GalletaMeadows, Borrego Springs, California. Images courtesy of the artist.
Songs of the Scorpion
To extend her project into different media, Ray commissioned poet Claressinka Anderson and experimental musician and vocalist Danielle Birrittella to create Songs of the Scorpion, a three-song operatic cycle for voice, cello, and viola performed during the Festival at the outdoor amphitheater at Borrego Springs County Park.
