On view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Thomas Jackson, ‘Chaotic Equilibrium’

Pennsylvania-based artist Thomas Jackson (b. 1971, Philadelphia) harnesses the wind to create ethereal works that blur the boundaries between landscape photography sculpture, and kinetic art. This fall, in his first presentation in Tennessee, Jackson will debut the live, fabric-based installation Chaotic Equilibrium comprised of chiffon in the museum’s rotunda. Animated by a network of computer-controlled fans, the piece will simulate the rhythmic movements of kelp forests swaying in ocean currents. Alternately expanding, contracting, breaking apart, and coming together again, the installation will exist in a state of constant transformation, a continuous search for equilibrium between order and chaos.