Peter Anderson, Mark Anderson and Cameron Schoepp have worked together on installation projects since first meeting in art studio courses in college. Since that time they have collaborated on many creative projects, using the group name Jet Construction. They each have independent creative practices in addition to their group work. 

    The name Jet Construction began as an offhand signature, spray painted on one of their tool boxes. Like most things initially lighthearted and meaningless, on further consideration, the name offers defining clues about this group and its work. Construction drives their work, yet as with all acts of making, ideas–often unintended and sometimes quite surprising–attach throughout the process. Process and discovery is the essence of Jet Construction’s working method.

    Wall Horn emerged from a series of intensive collaboration sessions during Spring 2019. Working around a big table in their San Francisco studio, simultaneously drawing and over-drawing many overlapping, tangential and one-thing-leads-to-another thoughts and half-thoughts, Jet Construction developed a new range of large-scale works projecting issues of tension, compression, gravity, mass and spatial density, perhaps compelled by suffocating weariness with the dumb weight of contemporary experience (as they understand the threads so far; more may be known on further consideration). Wall Horn is the first in this series to be built at scale, exhibited first at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in November 2019.

    There are eleven modules in the overall Wall Horn form, each with its own set of finger-jointed panels, flange frames, bolt fasteners, cables, aluminum attachment rods, tensioning cables and Spanish windlass handles. Eleven modules and the mounting wall are named after the twelve plants in our solar system (twelve planets were proposed by the international astronomical union in 2006). A viewer may discover herself as the sun, around which the Wall Horn modules orbit.