Halsey Rodman’s work proposes a consensual and liberating encounter with objects by rendering apparent the radical instability of their forms. Rodman's sculpture The Wind at Night (B) draws on his decades-long work at High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California, where the desert’s apparent stillness disguises the continuous, natural and human-made microevolutions of the landscape.

Rodman's careful observation of the smallest details become rich inspiration, as he describes: "The Wind at Night (B) is an outlier in the sense that it’s the only piece I’ve ever made with bricks. It was suggested by a specific situation that I observed on daily walk with my dog over many years. There was an older house on the other side of my block, a big wood-slatted house, a bit dilapidated but with beautiful stained glass accents. The windows were big double hung windows, thick wood frames with those old panes of glass where you can see the liquid state of glass, a bit rippled with time. Their front window was right at eye level so it felt close when you walked by; when the weather got warm they’d open up the bottom frame and there would be a red clay brick hanging there from some twine, right in the middle of the window, behind a screen but very clearly visible. It was mysterious, why hang a brick in your window, especially the window of a wood house?

After walking by for quite a few years, just loving this situation, the brick hanging there in the window night and day, I realized it was entirely practical: they were using the brick as a counterweight for the double hung window, it was there it help the pick up this gigantic frame and pane of glass. The wood circle with the title phrase cut out in window letters is sort of a moon, another sequential object that changes each night."