Travelogue, 2011
4' x 12' looped projection
Counterpath Art Space, Denver, CO, 2011
Part of a solo project, "Travel Patterns"
(view full-screen on vimeo)
Related works: Where I've Been and Where I Want To Go, Before You Go, Are you Here?
Travelogue is a double-projection combining texts and images of landscape from a wide range of sources as a visual essay on changing and enduring perceptions of site and landscape, and what they say about us. Counterpath is both an exhibition space and an experimental poetry publishing house. This work incorporates text as a response to Counterpath as a site.
Sources:
Text
Anon, 1800’s
Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel, 1997
Olafur Eliasson
Michel Foucault
Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, 1998
Kasuo Ishiguro, Artist in the Floating World, 1986
Jeffrey Kastner from Experimental Geography, Edited by Nato Thompson, 2008
Life: Mountains, 1962
David Mitchell, Ghostwritten, 1999
John Muir - The Mountains of California,1894
Haruki Murakami, The Windup Bird Chronicle, 1997
National Geographic, February, 1936
National Geographic, January, 1987
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, 2001
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
Nato Thompson, Experimental Geography, 2008
Images:
Artist
Flickr
Life: Mountains, 1962
National Geographic, 1972, 1987
Vintage postcards