Thickly Settled : Jeff Williams

With Thickly Settled, Williams presents a dysfunctional mental mass where questions of secrecy and security are sublimated into forms of absence and containment. In the installation everyday objects that speak to ideas of circulation and accumulation are coated with a electrostatic flocking fiber color blended to
simulate dust. The dust is layered as an insidious proliferation, concealing the exterior surface to reveal an interiority that is not on display. From a distance the reconstituted result forms as an opaque phantom, a neutron bomb effect that speaks of time and memory. Up close the dense layers of dust are a cross between the soft and cuddly qualities of a stuffed animal and the filth ignored under ones couch, blurring the line between comfort and the abject.