FOUND
"Found" is a site specific installation that I created in the year 2008 at the Evanston Art Center. The group show was titled "Heating up" and each invited artist was asked to contribute a new work based on the city of Chicago and global warming. The Evanston Art Center is north of Chicago and resides on the shores of Lake Michigan. "Found" is in a room that shows signs of a past flood. The room is starkly arranged and the walls are bare, but for two bright patches where art must have hung. Arranged stoically, is worn furniture consisting of a desk, a church pew, chairs, a small table, and one oil lamp converted to electricity. On the desk is a pile of books, journals whose entries are barely legible due to smears. There are also sketches that have been washed away.
The time is the future, a time not yet lived. In the journals we learn of a changing world where the lights can go out and things can slip away. We read of a quiet world, filled with new smells and noises that becomes a place to remain calm. I will be sharing journal entries, as part of a larger story, My Gamma Waves.Both Posterous and My Gamma Waves are streamed together on Facebook:
