The Mutable Garden at Granada continues Karolina Maszkiewicz's ongoing Serpsâtes series of kinetic sculptures and Lost Quarry collaboration. Constructed from stainless steel rods and foraged seed pods gathered throughout Southern California, each sculpture hangs in delicate balance, responding to the slightest movement of air.
Maszkiewicz's practice begins with gathering what the landscape has already released. Seed pods, once vessels of future life, are carefully arranged into suspended compositions. Air, light, and gravity continually reshape the composition, revealing new relationships between forms as the sculptures move.
Presented at midsummer, the exhibition reflects a season of gathering and a moment of balance. Just after the year's longest day, when light begins its gradual return, the sculptures echo the rhythm of the season. Neither the landscape nor the sculptures are ever still. Both exist in a continual state of adjustment, where change is quiet, constant, and inseparable from balance.