Specifications: Locus Solus, an installation piece made of nurse bed, two plaster sculptures (15 x 25 each) and bedsheets. Utilities, 21 platser sculptures with epoxy paint, approx. 8 x 10" each)

Description: Exhibition at the Williams College Art Gallery in Williamstown, MA, in May-Jnne 1995.Locus Solus: the installation questions traditional marriage values and the place of healing in contemporary art. Utilities: these sculptures resemble tools and kitchen utensils, but in abstract forms

Social sculpture entails the double helix, the spiralled worlds of pedagogy and art. Without the utopian ideology of Gordon Matta-Clark's Fourth Street School, I continue to fight for the rights of children to dream, imagine and body forth their ideas into praxis, into material and being. My own art is one parallel strand of the helix; my teaching is another; they do not touch except at certain chosen moments. Like Paolo Freire, I want to translate the spirit, knowledge, and craft of my work into the tongue of the young artist, the young person learning how art can be a part of larger world. Where they touch there is gold, there is precision, there is joy, and clarity.

Barbara Westermann, Williams College, 1994