Kelly Wall Time After Time July-August 2024 Los Angeles is a city of fantasy and illusion - a place where nostalgia is currency and product. Kelly Wall's cheeky sculptural practice engages both earnestly and ironically with this manufactured emotion. Wall has created a series of works for VSF’s courtyard that draw on that ultimate backyard icon: The folding, basketweave vinyl lawn chair. Replacing the delicate vinyl with woven stained glass and augmenting the aluminum structure of the chair to create morphing, multiplying shapes - no longer suitable for sitting - Wall's work suggests a campsite or party that happened last night, the mix and scramble of social interactions leaving their residue as objects. Alongside these colorful chairs, a collection of cast aluminum objects amplifies the impression that something happened here. Crushed cans, kitschy ash-trays, little rodents, and impossibly intertwined mugs form sundial-like circles around the chairs, and a cosmology of enchanting detritus across the ground. Every object conveys a sense of time that has passed, both recently and long in the rearview. A heart-shaped ash-tray, emblazoned in corny script with the word love on one side, and strife the other, is aptly titled Empodocles' cycles, nodding to the pre-Socratic philosopher's theory that the forces of love and strife are the push and pull forces of the world.