Red Hook Community Artists Network, Red Hook, NY 2013
Homemade is a residency designed to create a survey of the village of Red Hook during an eight week time period. In effort to engage with my surroundings, I assembled a studio in a local home where I developed a body of work in a 10 x 14' room and on the land about the house. Samples were taken from or identified within this environment to form narratives.
The collection of resident objects fall into one of two categories: nature or happenstance. Nature is literal and happenstance consists of food parts, specifically food consumed during the assignment as a way of preserving ordinary rituals. Both serve as a kind of currency or measurement of worth, in other words, a measurement of how many parts make up an event. To this end, like objects are grouped to create a visual study.
Gifts
The walnuts in the stocking were originally given as a gift welcoming the arrival of spring. There were some contradictory elements in this exchange as the walnuts were packaged and purchased and then presented in celebration of something entirely organic. The notion here is to re-present them in their natural form and return them to the earth. Likewise, the tulip bulbs in the flour sack were given in the spirit of spring. The bulbs mimic the intended content of their container, flour, as an ingredient used in creating something other, which can be consumed for sustenance and pleasure. Both bulbs and flour may be savored as something that can change form and flower again.
Installation
The land
installation is carried out by selecting objects found on the lot based
on attraction and relevance to coincident events. The objects are then
carved into or writing on as part of a system of naming and
categorization and also as a way of charting the involuntary movement of
the objects during my habitation. The objects have already been removed
from their parents if you will, for instance, a lone
branch of the
birch tree. Quickly, these objects travel and/or are embedded in the
earth. These changes are recorded in the form of drawings and
photographs.
Performance
The end of the eight weeks is celebrated by returning the items to the earth. The stockings and flour sacks serve as death totes for the objects to be buried some place significant over time and corresponding to the original site. The final act of this performance is recovering the objects from the earth. Both the inter and uncovery dates are recorded and the acts are documented through video and photographs. When these objects are uncovered months or years later, they will create a language that describes the exchange within the experience.
Red Hook Community Artists Network, Red Hook, NY 2013
Homemade is a residency designed to create a survey of the village of Red Hook during an eight week time period. In effort to engage with my surroundings, I assembled a studio in a local home where I developed a body of work in a 10 x 14' room and on the land about the house. Samples were taken from or identified within this environment to form narratives.
The collection of resident objects fall into one of two categories: nature or happenstance. Nature is literal and happenstance consists of food parts, specifically food consumed during the assignment as a way of preserving ordinary rituals. Both serve as a kind of currency or measurement of worth, in other words, a measurement of how many parts make up an event. To this end, like objects are grouped to create a visual study.
Gifts
The walnuts in the stocking were originally given as a gift welcoming the arrival of spring. There were some contradictory elements in this exchange as the walnuts were packaged and purchased and then presented in celebration of something entirely organic. The notion here is to re-present them in their natural form and return them to the earth. Likewise, the tulip bulbs in the flour sack were given in the spirit of spring. The bulbs mimic the intended content of their container, flour, as an ingredient used in creating something other, which can be consumed for sustenance and pleasure. Both bulbs and flour may be savored as something that can change form and flower again.
Installation
The land
installation is carried out by selecting objects found on the lot based
on attraction and relevance to coincident events. The objects are then
carved into or writing on as part of a system of naming and
categorization and also as a way of charting the involuntary movement of
the objects during my habitation. The objects have already been removed
from their parents if you will, for instance, a lone
branch of the
birch tree. Quickly, these objects travel and/or are embedded in the
earth. These changes are recorded in the form of drawings and
photographs.
Performance
The end of the eight weeks is celebrated by returning the items to the earth. The stockings and flour sacks serve as death totes for the objects to be buried some place significant over time and corresponding to the original site. The final act of this performance is recovering the objects from the earth. Both the inter and uncovery dates are recorded and the acts are documented through video and photographs. When these objects are uncovered months or years later, they will create a language that describes the exchange within the experience.