Sometimes I forget to fear

SOMETIMES I FORGET TO REMEMBER TO FEAR HOPE

Jennifer Dalton

2008

Mixed media

70" x 65" x 14" (178 x 165 x 36cm)

It is a sculpture made of 5 hinged panels of old-fashioned school

letterboards attached at the sides and hinged in accordion style, each on a metal sign stand. Each letterboard has a word or two placed on it that comprise a phrase when you read them all together. Depending on where you stand in relation to the accordion-folded panels, you can either see:

1. All 5 panels, which say SOMETIMES I / FORGET TO / REMEMBER TO / FEAR / HOPE
2. If you stand so the work is foreshortened, you see just the 1st, 3rd and 5th panels which read SOMETIMES I / REMEMBER TO / HOPE
3. If you stand so the work is foreshortened the other way, you see just the 2nd and 4th panels, which read FORGET TO / FEAR

An insightful artwork! Instead of "forget to hope" and "remember to fear", the artist put them the other way in a creative placement.

From now on, let's only say:

SOMETIMES I REMEMBER TO HOPE, FORGET TO FEAR.

Amen.