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…
Category: Dirt
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…
Dirt Drawn Into Dust
Phil Sawdon Phil Sawdon, First Draft, 2016, Text, paper and dust. Image courtesy of the artist. Phil Sawdon, First Draft, 2016, Detail, text, paper and dust. Image courtesy of the artist. The Fictional Museum of Drawing … subterranean in a…
A Vein Root
Gili Haimovich No grass will cradle you, no green allure you, an angry pumping vein of a muted tree. Unable to stand the underground, you attempt to stand up, rise yourself above it, squashed out between the pavement and the…
Harvest
Gili Haimovich My father grew Wrinkles. Reach high as the hay. If someone dares to harvest them It might be possible to build a home there. Closer to the right, The right eyebrow, feels almost like the right location for…
Island Farm: Ambling Through Time
Tim Cooke I was fourteen when I first visited the war camp at Island Farm, which is strange because my parents’ house is less than half a mile from the site. As far back as I can recall, my friends…
The Moon
Jarrod Beck General Statement My work creates a visceral bridge between our physical and perceptual experiences of natural phenomena. I use materials on vast scales to overwhelm peripheral vision and to increase potential points of contact for the viewer. I…
DIN & Sakuro
Angus Carter I have always been fascinated with the unseen and overlooked material that makes up our existence. The forest floor, sidewalks, yards, and indeed the earth floor itself are all comprised of almost microscopic particles of decomposing matter in…
We All Live Downwind
Shanna Merola All images by and courtesy the artist. The images in We All Live Downwind are culled from daily headlines – inspired by both global and grassroots struggles against the forces of privatization in the face of disaster capitalism.…
you are, all of this, except for…
Mike Callaghan All images by and courtesy the artist. Move at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once. Search for and await with…