“Before landing on this small island nation, I had never once had the experience of seeing the artifacts of a place, in that same place. Every stone mortar and diabase pounder and picrolite figurine and column fragment and ceramic vessel was created, used, loved, abandoned, and discovered well within a 200km radius of my body. Of and within. Total immersion.”
Read moreWhere the Wonder Lives– the making of an archive PART I
It began because I believe in the wonder of the world that shakes you to life, and I imagine that that wonder needs a place of its own to live when it’s not busy lighting our souls on fire… This is why I started making archives, and how archiving materials became a part of my practice as an artist. The freaking wonder of it all, and how material has the ability to hold and know all that has been and all that could be.
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