KRISTA CONNERLY AND TRACY FEATHERSTONE
Envirotouchers are a series of pieces that assist individuals in creating an intimate relationship with their environment. The Root Backpack is the second piece in the series.
The root backpack allows its wearer to grow into its environments. When activated this structure sprouts roots which gorw slowly into the ground. Takes up to four hours.
This project was made possible by a research grant from the University of Miami, Ohio and was also supported by Anderson Ranch Art Center through their Visiting Artist program.
TRACY FEATHERSTONE AND KRISTA CONNERLY
Envirotouchers are a series of pieces that assist individuals in creating an intimate relationship with their environment. The Snowball Carrier is the first piece in the series.
A protective carrying device was constructed to enable an individual to carry a snow-based part of the environment with them throughout the day. The quantity of time spent together and the proximity of natural environment and person will function to build intimacy between the individual and the fragile/temperamental passenger. The structure allows the individual to maintain an intimate relationship with the snowball despite the obvious difficulties the cold ephemeral snowball may present. Although it is not possible for the relationship between snowball and person to stand the test of time, the individual chooses to maintain the relationship with the snowball for as long as s/he and the snowball can endure.
This project was made possible by a research grant from the University of Miami, Ohio and was also supported by Anderson Ranch Art Center through their Visiting Artist program.
KRISTA CONNERLY
Forest Research is an open-ended research project consisting of images and interactive animations that explore the forest as mental terrirtory. Specifically, it looks at the idea of the Black Forest and it's corresponding language of fairytales. The stories that have grown out of this landscape seem to point to the calibration of internal to external. For instance, swallowing the heart of a bird creates a kind of physical alchemy during sleep that makes gold appear under your pillow. Fairy tales are filled with transformations like these and these activities are born out of the place itself; the forest as a density of desires and fears. Negotations of its tangles and complications cause internal shifts. Its presence and power saturate its visitors, forcing its outer movements and representations to be taken inside.
THOMAS FEULMER AND KRISTA CONNERLY
Print out this horizon line and tape it to your wall at eye level. Use scenes on back as daydreaming devices.