The irony doesn’t escape me. Our capacities for remote sensing increase daily. Nothing is beyond our digital and disembodied grasp: the floor of the ocean, the depths of Antarctica, the surfaces of Mars, even our own lives, as bots scour the web for information for (and about) us. We are captivated by what we see on the screen. And also, held captive by it—bound and contained in spite of our limitless reach. Forgetting to look …
draw: trace or produce a line or mark; pull or guide; extractdraw: a natural ditch or drain; a shallow valley Last year I drove from Lincoln (Section 52 in my grid) to Scottsbluff (Section 37) to give a workshop as part of Picturing Nebraska. As usual, I took the long way round—3 days and 629 miles. Leaving Sidney (Section 62) for Kimball and going west on Hwy 30, I saw Sidney Draw on the map. …
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. —Adrienne Rich alchemy: a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation or combination Prairie Skin, a work in progress, is a life-size, reversible, pieced and quilted construction which is large enough to wrap a body. Part of my Mapping Nebraska project, this piece is informed by my travels across the state and my memory of its prairies and grasslands. I remember my first art teacher’s teacher telling me …
