Brett Westfall and his daughter Moon Westfall continue their creative collaboration with Allocation’s Time, the second exhibition at These Days. In this show, Brett and his 15-year-old daughter Moon expand their practice beyond canvas work to embrace sculpture, assemblage, and installation. The colorful nature of the space provides a liminal tone which questions time and space and the extent which we exist whilst tapping into the joys of the urgent. The show comes as a recent, life-altering event grasped the duo to confront the delicacy of the human form and the unpredictable nature of life’s trajectory. The work a reflection of this introspection on how they spend their time thriving for the essence of meaning.
“This exhibition is about the precious commodity of time. When we are young and growing up it feels like time is a never-ending, slow process in which we have an infinite amount. As we grow older into adulthood and further, there is an understanding that comes in which the realization that time is actually moving faster than we can imagine and we do not have enough. This brings us to the reality that time itself is the most precious commodity of all. The way we spend this time as we get older, how we allocate it, and who we share it with in our life here on earth. Do we choose to spend our time in happiness, hope and joy? Or in a life of worry and darkness thinking only about our shortcomings in the limited time we have left? How will we as individuals decide to spend our time and what kind of existence will we decide to have in our allocation of life’s time?” – Brett Westfall