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I am so honored to have been awarded a residency at the Grand Canyon North Rim this coming Spring. Not surprising, this honor has become my themesong of 2012. I have planned a year's worth of activities relating to "the canyon".
Next week, I am off to the South Rim for a photo tour to orient myself and attempt to get over the "shock" of the grandscape. I'd like to get a jumpstart on letting the canyon find me rather than the other way around.
In May, the main thrust of my residency will be to create a collaborative work with park visitors. I strongly believe that art (under the influence of the "hand of nature") can be made accessible to everyone, especially using digital media. To make my project relevant to visitors, they'll experience the canyon from the standpoint of physics and geology.
Here's how: I will print a digital panoramic view of the canyon onto six, four-foot-long panels of silk. The image will be lightly shaded to show form. Every two hours Park visitors will learn to mix the colors they see and paint them onto the panel specific to that timeframe. They'll experience how the changing angle of sunlight can alter their perception of color. During the painting process we will talk about sedimentation - that the patterns and colors of the canyon were created the same way that pigments are deposited onto the silk. After the painting is complete, I will texturize the panels with thread painting and enter the work in ArtPrize, 2012 as a collaboration. The fundraising effort, Colors of Time, will support the costs associated with the project.
In the Fall, I have planned presentations in my local community to bring the park home and to inspire folks to use readily-available means to creatively express their viewpoints of outdoors.
