Visual Media
Untitled works by Ryan Baker Green
Untitled mixed media by Ryan Baker Green.
1800 feet of us by James Walton
My wall relief work is inspired by anthropomorphism as used in traditional stories and fables, often depicting relationships such as the hunted and the chased. Made life size by wrapping, usually hundreds of feet of brass wire around and between nails in a wall until their forms are made.
Dispatches from Egypt by Maggie H. Murphy
I’m going to call these videos “Dispatches from Egypt” (October 7 through October 13, 2008) for the purposes of this submission, but they are part of my ongoing project called “the Cosmic Abyss.” They are miniature songs that I wrote and recorded, one a day, over the course of a week that seek to explore reconciling the concept of physical distance with time-space compression in the current period.
Born of Ourselves by Corey Poluk
I got the idea for this piece during a seemingly never-ending period of uncertainty during last year. Things as I knew them had just been completely upended, and it was then that I had this moment of clarity. A moment that reminded me that though I was being held down by these incidents, I too was holding myself down.
Photographs by Maggie Murphy
Maggie Murphy has taken these remarkably serene, yet haunting moments throughout New York. Each of these images evokes a nostalgia, a longing for a previous and more precious moment; this moment could very well be contained in the wingspan of a bird, an empty room, two empty picture frames, or the way the Statue of Liberty floats against an overcast sky.
Photographs by Hannah Getz
The photographs contributed by Hannah Getz pose a dilemma. They are rich and vibrant offerings of dissatisfaction and, simultaneously, desire. Each image seems to refer to American standards of consumption and the notion that we may not be content with all that we have. It’s no surprise that this work fits superbly with this question of why are we not in paradise?.
