i am ready to leap, picture from first walk along estuary
i am presently at the sitka center for art and ecology for a month long artist residency. i have the pleasure of being here with Matthew Bower, Kim R Stafford, and Dawn Stetzel.
i am enjoying the feeling of being overwhelmed, both by the beauty of this environment and the gratitude i feel for this opportunity. my initial forays into this new and radically different environment have helped me to begin thinking holistically again. i am struck by how these sweeping landscapes open the mind to interconnections and windswept meetings. thinking about the deathly perfection of gold, i folded an ingot and photographed it along the coastline. paper boats, paper tigers, golden paper for the dead...
paper ingot
also, this is my first attempt at engaging shenzhen without academic scaffolding and presenting myself as an artist (with admittedly ethnographic inclinations). i am here to work on a series of image poems that interpret the transformation of shenzhen at the nexus of two discourses - the chinese discourse of the five elements and the western medical discourse of prosthetic construction. specifically, i am interested in mapping the cosmological implications of the transvaluation of chinese cartographies brought on by the ongoing construction of shenzhen. will post images.