A synopsis by way of explanation before you start to read...
Hi, I'm Lucy. I started my blog July 2009, to document my journey across the American West, and it now forms an archive of the Land Arts of The American West program 2009. As you can read below the journey took me far and wide with wonderful people, seeing wonderful places. When we returned from travelling we had 3 crazy weeks to put a show together. In that time I printed many photos and did 2 installations "off-site" i.e. away from the gallery space. One in an abandoned phone booth and one under a stairwell, both in different spaces within the University of New Mexico (UNM) campus. The tumble weed and barbed wire piece evolved further when I met The Chuppers - an electronic arts ensemble based in a wonderful recording studio filled with weird and wonderful hybrid instruments forged together from old and new technology. The Chuppers saw my piece under the stairs and were inspired to create music and video projection with my piece which I then in turn decided to "perform" for an audience. Around 40 or so people joined us on the night of the 18th Novemeber our audio, visual and corporeal performance...all of which is documented in my blog. This Blog has formed part of the Land Arts 2009 show at John Sommers Gallery, UNM.
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Working at Muley
It's strange how the desert make you think of water. At times at Muley my brain would trick me into thinking that if I looked up I would see the sea. It felt like we were on a high cliff over looking the ocean. The terrain below would once have been carved by the melting of the ice, cutting into the rock. Now we looked on down and down into the ancient sea bed. "The Presence of Absence" was the term I coined for it and it would go round and round in my head. The shapes I made try to respond to ideas of empty volume, water, weight, space, place and time.
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