"'Adrift',
for instance, depicts a house at the mercy of a sea squall,
and the building somehow appears more vulnerable to ruin than
a human victim might. ' A person has the power to swim', the
artist reflects. 'It's not usual to see a house floating in
the water. You wonder, how'd it get out there? I like to take
a structure out of context, to put it where it doesn't belong.'
This incongruity prompts the viewer to consider what the house
might represent: A person? An idea or belief? A community?
All life on Earth (think of Noah's Ark)? Spyker prefers to
leave that question open."
-
Julie York Coppens, from "What Dreams May Come",
a review of the artist's solo show
at
the South
Bend Regional Museum of Art,
published on Sunday,
December 21, 2003 in the
South
Bend Tribune
