I wanted to share a few images I created for zone project called - Give then Take. These, and the works of others, will be compiled and sent back out to the artists. Then we will create and send in a second work in response to the first. The final collaboration will be put together as a zine - Give then Take.
The theme is utopia.
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The antonym of Utopia is Dystopia. When I think back to the dystopian novels I’ve read, it strikes me that the states involved, often authoritarian, project a utopian vision that masks the dystopian reality. This contradiction begins this work. Looking to the world around me I selected items to think-through about this contradiction. A paper flower neither alive nor dead. A memory long past and a momento held in the moment. A blend of artifice and truth. Oranges, still wearing their badges, objects of commerce. Shipped to satisfy my desire, from the water and the land, and all that it means to be a farm worker. And the facade of slowly turning. Taken out of context. So maybe we can see things for what they are. To see them new / old again.