NADA Miami 2024

A 1:14 scale beaded jump rope by Clare Torina, presented to evoke the sense that it has just been cast down from use. The sculpture spans 125 feet from end to end. In this installation, the jump rope doubles as an index, or legend, for the meeting of two color palettes. A series of colors matched to Leonard Horowitz’s Miami Deco color palette (1976) alternate and blend with a chronology of room colors from Torina’s nomadic history, each corresponding to a noted physical location. As an adaptable object made with home building materials, l-e-g-e-n-d is a record of lived-in spaces, and an exercise on sentimental potency of color through the most basic act of painting.