Artist Initiative
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I will have a different understanding of individuals' relationships to the land they occupy. This will be evident in the completed sculptures. I will compare the results of the residency with my past work. 2: To bring contemporary work into the countryside, and bring back the experience of the farm to the city. I will talk with lobster fest visitors to gauge their experience with the work. After the lecture at Silverwood Park, I will hand out a survey regarding the talk.
I changed, or refined my thoughts about my surroundings. Ditching the problematic notion of nature, I am know focused on the 'wild' of wilderness. I measured this by how many works I thought I would get done over the course of the six weeks (fifteen) to the amount I did accomplish (five). The reason the numbers varied so much is because I got injured through the unpredictability of livestock. It taught an important lesson, albeit the hard way, that I am not always in control. This point has translated into my recent environmental interventions. 2: I longed to create a bridge between the urban and the rural. By representing the urban on the farm, and lecturing about the rural experience in an urban context. This worked quiet well. Through many informal interactions with the extend family, and community I expanded their thoughts of what art could be. During the well artist talk in the city, I was able to talk about my problematic assumptions, and how they were corrected. This talk was very well received, and had numerous attendees mention their appreciation of the whole story behind some of my objects and videos.