ACTIVATE Chicago Loop Alliance/Johalla Projects

Thanks to everyone who came out Thursday May 1st for this event. I was honored to be curating alongside Johalla Projects Anna Cerniglia and am really proud of what the artists contributed to the one night alley installation. The Loop Alliance is planning more of these events over the summer and Johalla as well has plans for more public installations/events slated for this summer. Here is my piece from the show.

I recently found a scrapbook from the 1920's in an attic at an estate sale titled "Pictures of Germany" by Gilbert Johnson. It was mostly empty pages but when coupled with the set of The Illustrated Columbia Encyclopedia from 1969 that I'd also just saved from a future as landfill, it got me thinking about the myriad ways in which time is recorded, compressed, repeated and the relationships we have with that cycling of histories. I started working on a series of visual non linear timelines as a way to explore the very active ways in which we rely on history and an assumed collective understanding of the unstoppable momentum that time has on our existence while simultaneously addressing the power that one has to manipulate and distort something seemingly impossible to penetrate.

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