Archipelagic Encounters
Atowa Island Series IV
by Geraldine Kiefer
March 25 through April 17
Helena Davis Gallery
Sentiment, Sediment, Embodiment: Archipelagic Drawings, Archipelagic Encounters
"Archipelagic Encounters" charts the emotive cartography of work I completed during the summer of 2010. By "emotive cartography" I mean drawings that transmit and transform memories and experiences of specific places, with the intent of making landforms that both suggest and specify and are charged by the illusion of embodiment. By "archipelagic encounters" I mean the evocation of islands and island groups within fluid and oceanic environments that operate both as images (seas, bays, peninsulas, capes, channels) and metaphors (fluid states). I am strongly directed to the metaphorical, poetic and spiritual resonance of islands-and I vary my art making with the study of island mapping from the 14th century through the 19th. My work, which I do in series, is charged by the unfixed, the transitional, and the transformational. "More generally, whenever we encounter matter, as Deleuze and Guattari insist, 'it is matter in movement, in flux, in variation.'" "To apply this rule," cultural anthropologist Tim Ingold writes, "is to intervene in a world that is continually 'on the boil.'"
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Opening Reception Fourth Friday
March 25, 2011
7-10 pm
Free and Open to the Public
Kauai Origins Series II
by Geraldine Kiefer
Kauai Origins Series III
by Geraldine Kiefer
Kauai Origins Series VI
by Geraldine Kiefer
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