Deryk Houston Opening Reception March 1, 2012
to
Deryk Houston
“Blackbirds, Stooked Wheat and Prayers”
February 27 - April 7
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 7-9
"Blackbirds, stooked wheat and prayer is a fairly good description of what often re- occurs in my work. A lot of my work has stooked wheat in them. I see them as people actually, and so that is why I often have them there. I love including churches, the idea of prayers being heard in the fields is dear to me. When I came back from Iraq and was working on my first field art project, I was astonished to hear a man singing his prayers out loud in Arabic as he road along on his tractor. And so after that, I often included churches in my fields.”