Thank you to those who have started blogging about your ideas. I appreciate all the different directions they're going. Although, I suspect, as with previous years, there will be 'themes' or connecting strands that emerge between us.
With Aaron's idea, if the group decides to do it, I would suggest having the installation movable so that it can be right outside the gallery for the reception and moved inside during the rest of the exhibition. Also, I would play on the economic (global v. local - US v. Ecuador) situation perhaps in how the items are priced or described or 'marketed'.
With Sara and Rebecca, I see a real search for place - place being a concept as much as a physical place. The personal and the ancestral. We all struggle to find our 'place' especially in light of the anchorless(?), mobile world in which we all to often ask "What's real?"
I'm still working through my map ideas. I got a great book "Map Art: Contemporary Artist Explore Cartography" by Katherine Harmon. As I reflect on the Galapagos Islands and our trip, I am struck by the forces, often just below the surface, that affect us. And yes, these forces are physical (tectonics, volcanoes, waves) and conceptual (ideology, politics, group dynamics). I struggle how to visually weave these interrelated 'maps of forces', but that's why I love making art. The struggle is the thing.
I hope to post some images soon.
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