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June 1, 2023

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Body. Place. Presence. Emergence

Ana Mendieta, “Anima,” 1976

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The same space, anchored in time...time and space captured...sequence...all parts in one image.  (brings to mind my need to capture one photograph of one bush every day over a year...and then, again, stopping at a point in the woods, again and again over time...creating an archive that will come into play in future art works)

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Concertina...folding...extension...

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I’m still very interested in map folding over history...currently creating concertina books in the studio.

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Gahhhh!

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I feel so connected with this.

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Notions of repetition....capture of line...memory.

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I’ve been reading essays by Sebastien Caquard the past several months. He writes stuff that inspires my practice and my relationship with my project at the Bow River, as well as the experience of my grief and sense of identity.  My personal narrative is more and more immersed in the land.

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As my body moves deep into the circle, I begin to question the truth of the map...and what it represents.  I also question my privilege. My body pulls out of an invention of geography and technology, a line.  I am becoming more and more curious about the edges.

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Joshua Edwards...my first encounter of someone who validated my daily circular walking that happened along with my daily photograph of one bush.

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Seventeen Lines, (pen, ink and oil, board), 1982 [Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, Edinburgh]