Hot glue is just inherently nastythe stuff of craft-making burns and unscheduled visits to the ER. Only when the translucent goo is safely inert does it become interesting, as in the 2,000 tentacles of Nascent. Suspended on wires overhead, illuminated by skylight above, Gerri Saylers dangling installation suggests coral, icicles, and stalactites. Each delicate, twisted strand has been halted in time, cooled into curly stasis. Yet however irregular and unique each pendulous cord may be, they all hang in regular rows that undulate like sine waves that both block and accommodate your path. (The architects have to be able to walk across the atrium; and no one wants want dried glue in their hair.) Visitors of a certain age may recall the beaded curtains of the 60s, though these glue strings shouldnt be brushed aside. On a clear day, the installation is interwoven with sunlight, ephemeral. Saylers companion text says the piece is meant to suggest thready vestiges of a nascent universe, like something thats just realized its initial form. Or, like DNA strands, this may only be the first combination of a structure thats never truly complete. BRIAN MILLER
Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: Sept. 20. Continues through Dec. 17, 2010
