I interviewed Moosehead Hooker, Janice Kimball-King, of Beaver Cove. She is a Jacqueline of all trades. Her house stands as the only one left on the point without indoor facilities. I loved her outhouse. She had caught it on fire years ago and the charcool edges puctuated its age. She noted the significant drops in tourism over twenty years. Again, her love of Moosehead rings true the connection people have with this place. I have continued to converse with the images, writing on them. Examining the dialog of landscape access and use.
The mannequins' covers continue to grow and shed. I add, think a bit, remove and change. The blend of cultural commentary and doll play is fun. I aquired a 1944 L.L. Bean catolog. It contains world war two references to rationing and racist cartoons of Germans and Japanesse. I am after old maps and logging equipment catalogs. They demonstrate the uses of the landscape past and present.
I will photograph the instillation once completed. When I am away in Vermont, I can leave the large print on view. Fun.
A walk is not just mechanical motion but also a space for critical thinking and creativity. My practice values narrating the geometry of my relationships. My photographs, as well as everyday items, souvenirs and interactions serve as frames that engage my life’s “open spaces” and areas of interest, including land use, domestic identity and social policy.
Moon Rise
View of White Cap Mountain
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
elevan- studio visit
My artist mentor, Natahsa Mayers, visited the wee Mild Red Studio this weekend. The fabulous visit involved reviewing and engaging my works. A visit to the camps allowed for plenty of time to discuss my framework and question the roles of humor and the sexy. Fourth of July will be a marvelous exchange with the community when the piece promenades!
Last two weeks were insane editing and getting out the second research packet, continuing to interview and photograph in the Moosehead Lake region, and putting form to thought in my installation. The packet finally got out. Interviews now number a baker's dozen, and I have begun working with how words carve meaning out of the landscape. I intend to do a book of portraits of Moosehead folks and comments demonstrating the bonds and common love of the landscape. I explored writing on photographs; this was a big deal for me. Photograph are precious to me having labored hours over each image. The Zoning is Sexy installation is up and progressing well. It explores the taboo topic of zoning in the Maine North Woods. People want things the way they are, but change is inevitable, and how do you maintain the traditions and the quality and allow new development. It is the big question because the answer effects access, which is the framework of our existence as a place. I am focusing my inquiry of access as it relates to tourism, hunting, mapping, forestry/silvaculture as the elements of Moosehead Branding in the North Maine Woods. I know this is broad and a lot to conceptualize. The instillation will bring it all together; I promise! My humor is how funny it is that a subject is taboo which everyone's lives depend upon. Yes, a little like sex. So, zoning is sexy and we should be respectful but engaged in it as a healthy part of our lives.
A wee rant on my part.....The unsettled territories of the Moosehead Lake region allow traditions and commerce long gone in most of Maine and the country. The working forest faintly resembles that of my childhood where thousands were employed to harvest and manage the landscape's renewable tree resources. Today a few hundred workers maintain the investment properties of lands now over cut. The lands offer little return at present because it takes decades for trees to mature. It is a critical time. What will become of this continuous woodlands owned by many. What will become of the North Maine Woods. Access is the issue. Access is key to all commerce and the quality of life. So many people love to explore and use this vast wild space: hunters, hikers, mountain bikers, walkers, skiers, snowshoers, snowmobilers, four-wheelers, jeepers, and road riders. The users are the living history of L.L.Dean! I call zoning sexy because it is taboo to discuss or event suggest the importance of legislation that maintains and protects the working forest.
How does your garden grow? With loggers and hunter, hikers and snowmobilers access is maintained, communities are sustained and America grows natural resources providing jobs and goods. Change is inevitable, but it needs to be smart and conscious of the lives [individual humans and communities of families] at stake.
Last two weeks were insane editing and getting out the second research packet, continuing to interview and photograph in the Moosehead Lake region, and putting form to thought in my installation. The packet finally got out. Interviews now number a baker's dozen, and I have begun working with how words carve meaning out of the landscape. I intend to do a book of portraits of Moosehead folks and comments demonstrating the bonds and common love of the landscape. I explored writing on photographs; this was a big deal for me. Photograph are precious to me having labored hours over each image. The Zoning is Sexy installation is up and progressing well. It explores the taboo topic of zoning in the Maine North Woods. People want things the way they are, but change is inevitable, and how do you maintain the traditions and the quality and allow new development. It is the big question because the answer effects access, which is the framework of our existence as a place. I am focusing my inquiry of access as it relates to tourism, hunting, mapping, forestry/silvaculture as the elements of Moosehead Branding in the North Maine Woods. I know this is broad and a lot to conceptualize. The instillation will bring it all together; I promise! My humor is how funny it is that a subject is taboo which everyone's lives depend upon. Yes, a little like sex. So, zoning is sexy and we should be respectful but engaged in it as a healthy part of our lives.
A wee rant on my part.....The unsettled territories of the Moosehead Lake region allow traditions and commerce long gone in most of Maine and the country. The working forest faintly resembles that of my childhood where thousands were employed to harvest and manage the landscape's renewable tree resources. Today a few hundred workers maintain the investment properties of lands now over cut. The lands offer little return at present because it takes decades for trees to mature. It is a critical time. What will become of this continuous woodlands owned by many. What will become of the North Maine Woods. Access is the issue. Access is key to all commerce and the quality of life. So many people love to explore and use this vast wild space: hunters, hikers, mountain bikers, walkers, skiers, snowshoers, snowmobilers, four-wheelers, jeepers, and road riders. The users are the living history of L.L.Dean! I call zoning sexy because it is taboo to discuss or event suggest the importance of legislation that maintains and protects the working forest.
How does your garden grow? With loggers and hunter, hikers and snowmobilers access is maintained, communities are sustained and America grows natural resources providing jobs and goods. Change is inevitable, but it needs to be smart and conscious of the lives [individual humans and communities of families] at stake.
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