Nice view of the gallery space looking through Carrie Ungerman's colored thread installation.  A bit of a departure for Carrie in this piece for Flashpoint but new and in line with a previous piece installed in her downtown LA studio, made out of thread and styrofoam and virtually, all white. 

The rainbow colors used by Carrie in this work are no accident and is if anything, a clin d'oeil to a childhood fantasy of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, to "growing up" in general, the Wizard of OZ and any naïve, kitschy representation of the rainbow - the rainbow is universal, a phenomenon of nature that has been drawn and colored at least once in the lifetime of any 3rd grader along with the yellow sun with spikes and a smiley face.  The rainbow has lost its initial inherent "beauty" and "look" and has been replaced by more worldly commercial goals - look in any tourist gift shop in America - and is now used to represent anything from saving whales to gay interests.

But Carrie's piece is about innocence, childhood innocence and wonderment, about where we came from and where we've gone and the traces, the paths, the roads we've taken and avoided.  In geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line; in life, the distance between where we were born and where we'll die is as tangled and dense and suspended as Carrie's work displayed here.