Gabriel Lalonde: Who am I? I am first of all earthen, attached to my human status. Telluric, rooted in the Earth. I: artist-poet, poet-artist. Artist and poet, I paint and write. I write words and images. Art inhabits me and…
Category: Dirt
An Interview with Sarah Witt
Jodie Cavalier All images by and courtesy Sarah Witt. I first learned of Sarah Witt through the High Desert Test Sites newsletter. I had been accepted to the AZ West Wagon Encampment Residency to continue my research on food, storytelling,…
Aurous and Geometric Interventions: An Interview with Claudia Wieser
Astarte Rowe The Mirror (installation view), 2013, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. An early apprenticeship as blacksmith at Bergmeister Kunstshmiede led Claudia Wieser to the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, where she completed an MA in Painting. Geometry…
Biomorphic Aesthetics and the Crystallization of Process over Eidos: An Interview with Jessica Drenk
Astarte Rowe Porcelain Skins (series), 2006, Porcelain, cotton swabs, 7 x 6 x 6 inches. Courtesy the artist. Jessica Drenk’s biomorphic sculptures push materials such as personal hygiene items – gauze, toilet paper, cotton buds, and toothpicks – to their…
An Interview with Carli Holcomb
Greg Minissale: What does ‘dirt’ mean to you? Carli Holcomb: When I think of dirt, I can’t help but think of digging. Of pushing my hands deep in the fragments of the earth. Micro landscapes from centuries ago, caught in…