Curator’s Note

Three seemingly disparate elements—a vending machine, a geometric wooden structure, and a melting mass of black ice—create a contemporary parable of consumption and consequence. The title's reference to Homer's mythological sea monsters positions viewers between modern forces no less threatening than the ancient perils faced by Odysseus.

The wooden dodecahedron hovers like an abstracted molecular structure, its clean geometry illuminated from below by cold blue light, while the vending machine stands as a familiar sentinel of convenience and consumption. Between them, a dark puddle spreads from melting black ice—a potent fusion of oil and frozen water that serves as a temporal measure of environmental degradation.

This isn't just institutional critique—it's an elegiac meditation on the impossible choices we face in the Anthropocene. Like ancient sailors forced to choose between monsters, we navigate between convenience and consequence, consumption and conservation. The piece transforms the gallery into a space of decision, where the steady drip of melting ice marks time like a corrupted hourglass, and the hum of the vending machine provides a corporate soundtrack to our collective dilemma. Here, Scylla and Charybdis are recast as the twin threats of technological progress and environmental collapse, with humanity still caught in the narrow waters between.