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landscape series: place / location / locale
This series of work deals with the transient nature of life, transient both in
terms of one’s locale and, also, one’s existence. In many ways, this
work serves as iconic imagery, memories of places visited or inhabited, and dreams
of locations yet to be realized. While technology continues to reduce the necessity
of place, it calls to question the ability to locate oneself or, more appropriately,
how to locate oneself, despite the availability of technology such as global
positioning satellites (GPS) and Google Earth, which offer the ability to plot
locale, globally, within a matter of feet.
Despite the conceptual drive for this work, the objects, themselves, remain decidedly
domestic. I have made this decision upon the belief that it is through my domestic
landscape, the banal existence of the familiar, that I locate myself, physically.
A great deal of this orientation is defined through the corporeal nature of the
body and the tactility of materials, the ability to feel, manipulate, and respond,
in a physical means, to matter. It is this sensibility to exploring and discovering,
the inhibition of a child, that informs the choice of color, color that is playful
and stimulating, and, at the same time, functioning as an identifier, similar
to how color functions on a map or diagram. |
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