Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels
Early Triangles

Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels created her triangular works from discarded housing materials; she makes large-scale construction installations that are submerged environments into existing architecture. These spaces are composed of a sense of placelessness, with awkward entrances, and inviting nooks.

In 2012, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels began creating these installations by first drawing small, fantastical ‘blueprints’ whose abstract and compressed geometric representations would grow into larger versions of themselves quasi-infinitely— like crystals made of a lattice of crystalline grains, or the Sierpinski triangle made of infinitely smaller triangles. Fels sees these as representations of how we are each made from the genetic and emotional layers of thousands of people. Combining these concepts from the drawings with a site’s specific geography, she builds from lath the feelings and moments that subtly form people’s experiences within each of her installations.